اویقوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اویقو (uyku, “sleep”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

اویقوجی • (uykucu)

1. sleepyhead, a great sleeper, a person who enjoys sleeping

Descendants

• Turkish: uykucu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uykucu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5012
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اویقوجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 88b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Somnolentus”, 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 1571
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اویقوجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 557
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اویقوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 274