دوه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوه (deve, “camel”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

دوه‌جی • (deveci)

1. owner or driver of camels

Descendants

• Turkish: deveci
• → Armenian: տէվէճի (tēvēči), ⇒ Դևեջյան (Deweǰyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1186
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 593
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 2195–2196
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 929