چفتجی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From چفت (çift, “pair; yoke, team”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]چفتجی • (çiftci)
- farmer, agriculturist, husbandman, a person who raises crops and tends animals
Derived terms
[edit]- چفتجیلك (çiftcilik, “husbandry, agriculture”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çiftçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 987
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چفتجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 184a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چفتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 471
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Agricola”, 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[3], Vienna, column 44
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفتجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1624
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چفتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 723