آرپه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From آرپه (arpa, “barley”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

آرپه‌جی • (arpacı)

1. dealer in barley, especially as food for horses

Descendants

• Turkish: arpacı
• Armenian: արփաճի (arpʻači), ⇒ Արփաճյան (Arpʻačyan)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرپه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 60
• 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 52