عباجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From عبا (abâ, “aba, a coarse felted fabric from the Middle East”) +‎ ـجی (cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

عباجی • (abacı)

1. maker or seller of woollen homespun cloth or garments

Descendants

• Turkish: abacı
• →⇒ Armenian: Աբաջյան (Abaǰyan, a surname)
• →⇒ Bulgarian: абаджи́я (abadžíja, “tailor”)
• → Romanian: abagiu

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1280