ایپكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ایپك (ipek, “silk”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

ایپكجی • (ipekci)

1. silk-merchant, a dealer in silk thread

Descendants

• Turkish: ipekçi

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایپكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 211
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایپكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 286