پاچاوره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پاچاوره (paçavra, “rag, tatter”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پاچاوره‌جی • (paçavracı)

1. ragman, a person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and tatters

Descendants

• Turkish: paçavracı
• → Armenian: փաչավռաճի (pʻačʻavṙači), փաչառվաճի (pʻačʻaṙvači)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paçavracı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3750
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاچاوره‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 310
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاچاوره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 431