بوزاجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بوزه‌جی (bozacı)

Etymology

From بوزا (boza, “a kind of fermented drink”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بوزاجی • (bozacı)

maker or seller of boza, a kind of fermented drink originating from Central Asia

Descendants

Turkish: bozacı
→ Albanian: bozaxhi
→ Armenian: պօզաճի (pōzači), ⇒ Պոզաճյան (Pozačyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bozacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 287
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.