قلبورجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قلبور (kalbur, “sieve, riddle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

قلبورجی • (kalburcu)

1. maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles
2. siever, sifter, one who sieves or sifts

   Synonym: الكجی (elekci)

Descendants

• Turkish: kalburcu
• →⇒ Armenian: Խալբուրջյան (Xalburǰyan), Խալպուրճյան (Xalpurčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalburcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2350
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلبورجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1450
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162