پلاوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پلاو (pilav, “pilaf”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

پلاوجی • (pilavcı)

1. maker or vender of pilav

Descendants

• Turkish: pilavcı
• →⇒ Armenian: Փիլավճյան (Pʻilavčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pilavcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3854
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلاوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452