چیركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چیرك (çeyrek) +‎ ـجی (-ci).

Noun

چیركجی • (çeyrekçi)

butcher who sold in the market, pedlar of butcher's meat

Descendants

Turkish: çeyrekçi
→? Albanian: çerekçi
→⇒ Armenian: Չերեքճյան (Čʻerekʻčyan)

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 743
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çeyrekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 950

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