عربهجی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
عربه (araba, “carriage”) + ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)
Noun edit
عربهجی • (arabacı)
- driver (of a wheeled vehicle)
- maker of wheeled vehicles
Descendants edit
- 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 edit
- 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, , page 51