چوقه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چوقه (çoka, “baize, broadcloth, drape”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چوقه‌جی • (çokacı)

1. draper, a dealer, retailer, or wholesaler of cloth or textiles for clothing

   Synonym: بزاز (bezzaz)

Descendants

• Turkish: çuhacı
• → Armenian: չուխաճի (čʻuxači), ⇒ Չուխաջյան (Čʻuxaǰyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çuhacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1055
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوقه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 480
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pannifex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1238
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوقه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1681
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوقه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 738