الكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From الك (elek, “sieve, riddle”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

الكجی • (elekci)

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

   Synonym: قلبورجی (kalburcu)

Derived terms

• الكجیلك (elekcilik, “the profession of a sifter”)

Descendants

• Turkish: elekçi
• → Armenian: էլէքճի (ēlēkʻči), ⇒ Էլեքճյան (Ēlekʻčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “elekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1414
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 138