دودوكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دودوك (düdük, “whistle; pipe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

دودوكجی • (düdükcü)

1. whistler, someone who plays the whistle
2. piper, a musician who plays the pipe

Descendants

• Turkish: düdükçü
• →⇒ Armenian: Դուդուկչյան (Dudukčʻyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düdükçü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1318
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دودوكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 584
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دودوكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 919