قربه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قربه (kırba, “waterskin”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قربه‌جی • (kırbacı)

1. maker or seller of waterskins or leather-bottles

   Synonym: طولومجی (tulumcu)

Descendants

• Turkish: kırbacı
• → Armenian: խըռպաճի (xəṙpači), ⇒ Գըրպաճյան (Gərpačyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırbacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2617
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Utrarius”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1798
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قربه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3663
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قربه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1445