زورناجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From زورنا (zurna, “zurna, shawm”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

زورناجی • (zurnacı)

1. zurna-player, someone who plays the zurna

Descendants

• Turkish: zurnacı
• → Armenian: զուռնաճի (zuṙnači), զուռնաչի (zuṙnačʻi)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زورناجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 651