مقرهجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- مقارهجی (makaracı)
Etymology
[edit]From مقره (makara, “pulley; bobbin, spool”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]مقرهجی • (makaracı)
- maker or seller of pulleys, blocks and similar contrivances
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: makaracı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makaracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقارهجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1205
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقرهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944