یولجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• եօլճու (yolcu), եօլճի (yolci), եօլճը (yolcı) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From یول (yol, “road, street, way”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

یولجی • (yolcu)

1. traveller, wayfarer, one who travels, especially to distant lands

   Synonym: سیاح (seyyah)

Derived terms

• صو یولجی (su yolcu, “plumber”)
• یولجی چیقارمق (yolcu çıkarmak, “to set a traveller on his journey”)
• یولجیلق (yolculuk, “quality or acts of a traveller”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yolcu
• → Albanian: jollxhi
• → Armenian: եօլճի (eōlči)
• → Serbo-Croatian: jòldžija／јо̀лџија

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yolcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5353
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یولجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یولجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Viator”, 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 1752
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یولجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5634
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یولجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2218