چاقیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاقی (çakı, “penknife, clasp-knife”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چاقیجی • (çakıcı)

maker or seller of penknives

Descendants

Turkish: çakıcı
→ Armenian: չախուճի (čʻaxuči), ⇒ Չագըճյան (Čʻagəčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakıcı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 858
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 707

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