بوركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From بورك (börek, “pie, pastry”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

بوركجی • (börekci)

1. pastry chef, piemaker, a baker specialized in making pastries, pies, patties and tarts

Derived terms

• بوركجیلك (börekcilik, “profession of a pastry chef”)

Descendants

• Turkish: börekçi
• → Armenian: պէօրէքճի (pēōrēkʻči), ⇒ Պյորեքճյան (Pyorekʻčyan)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 676
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوركجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 284
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artocrearum pistor”, 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 88
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوركچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 915
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395

Etymology 2

From بورك (börk, “kind of conical cap”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

بوركجی • (börkcü)

1. capper, a maker or seller of caps, especially conical hats made of felt

Descendants

• Turkish: börkçü

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “börkçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 677
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395