اشكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اشك (eşek, “donkey”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اشكجی • (eşekci)

1. dealer in donkeys or donkey-driver

   Synonym: مركبجی (merkebci)

Descendants

• Turkish: eşekçi
• → Armenian: էշեքճի (ēšekʻči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eşekci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1497
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Asinarius”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 90
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشكجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 243
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 122