یورغانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یورغان (yorğan, “quilt”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یورغانجی • (yorğancı)

1. quilter, a maker or seller of quilts

Derived terms

• یورغانجیلق (yorğancılık, “the profession or work of a quilter”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yorgancı
• → Armenian: եօրղանճի (eōrġanči), ⇒ Յորղանճյան (Yorġančyan)
• →⇒ Greek: Γεωργατζής (Georgatzís), Γεωργαντζής (Georgantzís)
• → Romanian: iorgangiu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yorgancı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5360
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یورغانجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یورغانجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[3], volume 137, number 4, →DOI, page 320