عباجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From عبا (abâ, “aba, a coarse felted fabric from the Middle East”) +‎ ـجی (cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

عباجی • (abacı)

maker or seller of woollen homespun cloth or garments

Descendants

Turkish: abacı
→⇒ Armenian: Աբաջյան (Abaǰyan, a surname)
→⇒ Bulgarian: абаджи́я (abadžíja, “tailor”)
→ Romanian: abagiu

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1280

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