آوجی

Ottoman Turkish

آوجی

Alternative forms

• ավճը (avcı) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From آو (av, “hunting”) +‎ ـجی (-cı).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [avˈd͡ʒɯ]

Noun

آوجی • (avcı)

1. hunter, huntsman

Derived terms

• آوجیلق (avcılık, “the state of being a hunter”)

Descendants

• Turkish: avcı
• → Armenian: ավճի (avči), օ՛վչի (ṓvčʻi)
• → Bulgarian: авджи́я (avdžíja)
• → Laz: ავჯი (avci)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀вџија

  Latin script: àvdžija

• → Tigre: ኣውጂ (ʾawǧi)
• → Ubykh: ауџы (awdẑə)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آوجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 40
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آوجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 491–492
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 239
• 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^[4], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 53