شربتجی

Ottoman Turkish

شربتجی

Etymology

From شربت (şerbet, “beverage; sharbat”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شربتجی • (şerbetci)

1. maker or seller of sharbats or other sweet beverages

Derived terms

• شربتجی اوتی (şerbetci otu, “common hop”)
• شربتجیلك (şerbetcilik, “work of a sharbat-maker”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şerbetçi
• → Armenian: շէրպէթճի (šērpētʻči), ⇒ Շերպեթճյան (Šerpetʻčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şerbetçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4459
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شربتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 723
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شربتجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2795
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شربتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1121