قوغه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوغه (koğa, “bucket, pail”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قوغه‌جی • (koğacı)

1. maker or seller of buckets, pails, or similar containers
2. bucketer, a person employed to use a bucket in some capacity

Descendants

• →⇒ Armenian: Գովաճյան (Govačyan)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوغه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1490