دودوكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دودوك (düdük, “whistle; pipe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

دودوكجی • (düdükcü)

whistler, someone who plays the whistle
piper, a musician who plays the pipe

Descendants

Turkish: düdükçü
→⇒ Armenian: Դուդուկչյան (Dudukčʻyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düdükçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1318
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دودوكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 584
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دودوكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919

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