قوقله‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوقله (kukla, “doll, puppet, marionette”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قوقله‌جی • (kuklacı)

1. maker, seller, or exhibitor of dolls, puppets and marionettes

Descendants

• Turkish: kuklacı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuklacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2824
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوقله‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1493