كوپریجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كوپری (köpri, “bridge”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كوپریجی • (köprici)

1. bridger, a person that builds bridges
2. caretaker or toll-taker of a bridge

Descendants

• Turkish: köprücü

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “köprücü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2788
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوپریجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1045
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوپریجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1582