عربه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

عربه (araba, “carriage”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix)

Noun

عربه‌جی • (arabacı)

driver (of a wheeled vehicle)
maker of wheeled vehicles

Descendants

Turkish: arabacı
→ Albanian: arabaxhi
→ Egyptian Arabic: عربجي (ʕarbagi)
→ Armenian: արաբաջի (arabaǰi), արապաճի (arapači), ⇒ Արաբաջյան (Arabaǰyan)
→ Bulgarian: арабаджи́я (arabadžíja)
→ Georgian: არაბაჯი (arabaǯi)
→ Greek: αραμπατζής (arampatzís)
→ Hungarian: arabacsi
→ Macedonian: арабаџија (arabadžija)
→ Romanian: harabagiu, Arabagi
→ Serbo-Croatian: arabàdžija, rȁbadžija

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عربه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1292
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, volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 51

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