یاغجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاغ (yağ, “oil, butter, grease”) +‎ ـجی (-cı).

Noun

یاغجی • (yağcı)

1. dealer in oil, grease, ointment, etc.
2. person who lubricates machines

Descendants

• Turkish: yağcı
• → Armenian: յաղճի (yaġči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5154
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یاغجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1340
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Olearius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 119
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاغجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 5545–5546
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاغجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2187