فرونجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From فرون (furun, fırın, “oven, kiln”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

فرونجی • (furuncu, fırıncı)

1. worker at or builder of ovens, kilnman
2. baker, a person who bakes and sells bread

   Synonym: اكمكجی (ekmekçi)

Descendants

• Turkish: fırıncı
• → Armenian: ֆուռունճի (fuṙunči), ֆռնչի (fṙnčʻi), փռնչի (pʻṙnčʻi), փուռունչի (pʻuṙunčʻi)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرونجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 897
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pistor”, 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 1304
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فرونجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3513–3514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرونجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1381