مقره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مقاره‌جی (makaracı)

Etymology

From مقره (makara, “pulley; bobbin, spool”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

مقره‌جی • (makaracı)

1. maker or seller of pulleys, blocks and similar contrivances

Descendants

• Turkish: makaracı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “makaracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3026
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقاره‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1205
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1944