خالیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خالی (halı, “carpet”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

خالیجی • (halıcı)

1. carpetmaker, carpetmonger, a manufacturer or trader of carpets

Descendants

• Turkish: halıcı
• → Armenian: խալիճի (xaliči), ⇒ Հալըճյան (Haləčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “halıcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1849
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خالیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825