قارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قار (kar, “snow”) +‎ ـجی (cı, occupational suffix).

Noun

قارجی • (karcı)

1. snow seller

Descendants

• Turkish: Karcı (surname)
• →⇒ Armenian: Գարճյան (Garčyan, surname)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 924
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “karcı”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “karcı”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 606a