اوجاقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوجاق (ocak, “fireplace; chimney”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوجاقجی • (ocakcı)

1. chimney sweep, a person whose job is to clean soot from chimneys.

Descendants

• Turkish: ocakçı
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) օճախճի (ōčaxči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ocakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3582
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوجاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 176
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوجاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 238