چاقیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاقی (çakı, “penknife, clasp-knife”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چاقیجی • (çakıcı)

1. maker or seller of penknives

Descendants

• Turkish: çakıcı
• → Armenian: չախուճի (čʻaxuči), ⇒ Չագըճյան (Čʻagəčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakıcı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 858
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 707