لوله‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لوله (lüle, “tube, pipe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

لوله‌جی • (lüleci)

1. maker or seller of pipe-bowls

Descendants

• Turkish: lüleci
• →⇒ Armenian: Լյուլեճյան (Lyulečyan), Լյուլեջյան (Lyuleǰyan)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوله‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوله‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1646