لوله‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لوله (lüle, “tube, pipe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

لوله‌جی • (lüleci)

maker or seller of pipe-bowls

Descendants

Turkish: lüleci
→⇒ Armenian: Լյուլեճյան (Lyulečyan), Լյուլեջյան (Lyuleǰyan)

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوله‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوله‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1646

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