بورغوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بورغو (burgu, “any boring instrument”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

بورغوجی • (burgucu)

1. maker or seller of borers, drills, augers or gimlets

Descendants

• Turkish: burgucu
• →⇒ Armenian: Պուրկուճյան (Purkučyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “burgucu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 702
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورغوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 395
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 61