اوجاقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوجاق (ocak, “fireplace; chimney”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوجاقجی • (ocakcı)

chimney sweep, a person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.

Descendants

Turkish: ocakçı
→ Armenian: (Constantinople) օճախճի (ōčaxči)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ocakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3582
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238

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