چناقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Çanakçı district

Etymology

From چناق (çanak, “earthenware pot, bowl”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چناقجی • (çanakcı)

1. potter, a person who makes earthenware pots and other ceramic wares

Descendants

• Turkish: çanakçı
• →⇒ Armenian: Չանախչյան (Čʻanaxčʻyan)

Proper noun

چناقجی • (Çanakcı)

1. Çanakçı (a town and district in Giresun province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Çanakçı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çanakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 879
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çanakçı”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چناقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 2)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 2, →DOI, page 86
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çanakçı”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[3], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 169