چورابجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چوراب‎ (çorab, “sock, stocking”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چورابجی • (çorabcı)

maker or seller of socks and stockings

Descendants

Turkish: çorapçı
→ Armenian: չօրապճի (čʿōrapči), ⇒ Չորապճյան (Čʿorapčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çorapçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1035
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چورابجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 477
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چورابجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 734

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