باروتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باروت (barut, “gunpowder”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

باروتجی • (barutcu)

powdermaker, a person that makes gunpowder

Derived terms

باروتجی باشی (barutcu başı, “director of the Government powder-mills”)

Descendants

Turkish: barutçu
→ Armenian: պարութճի (parutʻči), բա̈րո̈ւթջի (bärütʻǰi), ⇒ Պարութճյան (Parutʻčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “barutçu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 473
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باروتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 237
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باروتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321

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