صوغانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صوغان (soğan, “onion”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

صوغانجی • (soğancı)

1. eater or seller of onions

Descendants

• Turkish: soğancı
• →⇒ Armenian: Սողանճյան (Soġančyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “soğancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4278
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوغانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 772
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ceparius”, 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 169
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوغانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191