اوراقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوراق (orak, “sickle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوراقجی • (orakcı)

1. reaper, a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping

Derived terms

• اوراقجیلق (orakcılık, “profession of a reaper”)

Descendants

• Turkish: orakçı
• → Armenian: օրախճի (ōraxči), ⇒ Օրագյան (Ōragyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “orakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3626
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوراقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Messor”, 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, columns 1043-1044
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوراقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 496
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوراقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 243