شكرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شكر (şeker, “sugar; comfit, sugar-plum”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

شكرجی • (şekerci)

1. confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items

   Synonym: حلواجی (helvacı)

Derived terms

• شكرجی دكانی (şekerci dükkânı, “confectionery, sweetshop”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şekerci
• → Armenian: շեքերճի (šekʻerči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şekerci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4451
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شكرجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 289a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شكرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 731
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sacchari venditor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1499
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكرجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 2841–2842
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132