طولومجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طولوم (tulum, “waterskin”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

طولومجی • (tulumcu)

1. maker or seller of waterskins

   Synonym: قربه‌جی (kırbacı)

Descendants

• Turkish: tulumcu
• →⇒ Armenian: Թուլումճյան (Tʻulumčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulumcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4906
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Utrarius”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1798