قاشیقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قاشقجی (kaşıkcı)

Etymology

From قاشیق (kaşık, “spoon”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قاشیقجی • (kaşıkcı)

1. spoonmaker, a manufacturer of spoons
2. (figuratively) glutton, gourmand, big eater

   Synonym: اوبور (obur)

Derived terms

• قاشیقجی آوردی (kaşıkcı avurdu, “grimace of disappointment”)
• قاشیقجی الماسی (kaşıkcı elması, “the largest diamond in the Ottoman regalia”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kaşıkçı
• → Arabic: خَاشُقْجِي (ḵāšuqjī)
  • → English: Khashoggi
• →⇒ Armenian: Գաշըգճյան (Gašəgčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaşıkçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2464
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاشیقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 928
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاشقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3584
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاشیقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1418