كوپریجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوپری (köpri, “bridge”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوپریجی • (köprici)

bridger, a person that builds bridges
caretaker or toll-taker of a bridge

Descendants

Turkish: köprücü

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köprücü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2788
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپریجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپریجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1582

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