kurucu

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوروجی, قوریجی (kurucu), kur- (“to found”) +‎ -ucu.

Noun

kurucu (definite accusative kurucuyu, plural kurucular)

1. founder

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوریجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1486a
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN