كوركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From كورك (kürek, “oar; shovel”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوركجی • (kürekci)

1. rower, oarsman, a person who rows a boat, either alone or with others
2. maker or seller of shovels, peels and any other similar instruments

Descendants

• Turkish: kürekçi
• → Armenian: քիւրէքճի (kʻiwrēkʻči), ⇒ Քյուրեքճյան (Kʻyurekʻčyan)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2902
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Remex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4064
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
• 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^[4], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 171

Etymology 2

From كورك (kürk, “fur”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوركجی • (kürkcü)

1. furrier, a person who sells, makes, repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in clothing made of fur

Descendants

• Turkish: kürkçü
• → Armenian: քիւրքճի (kʻiwrkʻči), քյուրքչի (kʻyurkʻčʻi), ⇒ Քյուրքչյան (Kʻyurkʻčʻyan)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kürkçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2904
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوركجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1049
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pellio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[6], Vienna, column 1261
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 4064
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1587
• 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^[9], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 171