باروتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باروت (barut, “gunpowder”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

باروتجی • (barutcu)

1. powdermaker, a person that makes gunpowder

Derived terms

• باروتجی باشی (barutcu başı, “director of the Government powder-mills”)

Descendants

• Turkish: barutçu
• → Armenian: պարութճի (parutʻči), բա̈րո̈ւթջի (bärütʻǰi), ⇒ Պարութճյան (Parutʻčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “barutçu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 473
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باروتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 237
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باروتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321