حجار

See also: حجاز

Arabic

Noun

حِجَار • (ḥijār) m pl

1. plural of حَجَر (ḥajar)
2. plural of حُجْر (ḥujr)
3. plural of حِجْر (ḥijr)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَجَّار (ḥajjār, “stonecutter”).

Noun

حجار • (haccar)

1. stonecutter, stonemason, somebody who cuts, carves or dresses stone

   Synonym: طاشجی (taşcı)

Descendants

• Turkish: haccar
• →⇒ Armenian: Հաճճարյան (Haččaryan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haccar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1826
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “haccâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 365
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lapidarius”, 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 913
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حجار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1726
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حجار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 764