باقرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باقر (bakır, “copper”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باقرجی • (bakırcı)

1. coppersmith, redsmith, a person who forges things out of copper

Descendants

• Turkish: bakırcı
• → Armenian: պախըրճի (paxərči), փախըրճի (pʻaxərči), ⇒ Պաքըրճյան (Pakʻərčyan)
• → Laz: ბაქირჯი (bakirci)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باقر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 272
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bakırcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 443
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باقرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 244
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ærarius”, 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 35
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باقرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 674
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باقرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 331