پاچاوره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پاچاوره (paçavra, “rag, tatter”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پاچاوره‌جی • (paçavracı)

ragman, a person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and tatters

Descendants

Turkish: paçavracı
→ Armenian: փաչավռաճի (pʻačʻavṙači), փաչառվաճի (pʻačʻaṙvači)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paçavracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3750
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاچاوره‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 310
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاچاوره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 431

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