صوباجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صوبا (soba, “stove, heater”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

صوباجی • (sobacı)

1. maker or seller of stoves

Descendants

• Turkish: sobacı
• →⇒ Armenian: Սոբաջյան (Sobaǰyan), Սոպաճյան (Sopačyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sobacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4276
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوباجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 770
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1189