اونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اون (un, “flour”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

اونجی • (uncu)

1. flour-monger, flour-merchant, a seller of or dealer in flour

   Synonym: دقاق (dakkak)

Descendants

• Turkish: uncu
• → Armenian: ունճի (unči), ⇒ Ունճյան (Unčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uncu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4988
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 204
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Farina”, 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, column 552
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 271