الكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From الك (elek, “sieve, riddle”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

الكجی • (elekci)

maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles
siever, sifter, one who sieves or sifts
Synonym: قلبورجی (kalburcu)

Derived terms

الكجیلك (elekcilik, “the profession of a sifter”)

Descendants

Turkish: elekçi
→ Armenian: էլէքճի (ēlēkʻči), ⇒ Էլեքճյան (Ēlekʻčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1414
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 138

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