عربه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

عربه (araba, “carriage”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)

Noun

عربه‌جی • (arabacı)

1. driver (of a wheeled vehicle)
2. maker of wheeled vehicles

Descendants

• Turkish: arabacı
• → Albanian: arabaxhi
• → Egyptian Arabic: عربجي (ʕarbagi)
• → Armenian: արաբաջի (arabaǰi), արապաճի (arapači), ⇒ Արաբաջյան (Arabaǰyan)
• → Bulgarian: арабаджи́я (arabadžíja)
• → Georgian: არაბაჯი (arabaǯi)
• → Greek: αραμπατζής (arampatzís)
• → Hungarian: arabacsi
• → Macedonian: арабаџија (arabadžija)
• → Romanian: harabagiu, Arabagi
• → Serbo-Croatian: arabàdžija, rȁbadžija

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عربه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1292
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 51