كرپیچجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كرپیچ (kerpiç, “mudbrick, adobe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كرپیچجی • (kerpiçci)

1. maker or seller of mudbricks or adobe bricks

Descendants

• Turkish: kerpiççi
• → Armenian: քէրփիճճի (kʻērpʻičči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kerpiççi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2561
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كرپیچجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1019