چفتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چفت (çift, “pair; yoke, team”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

چفتجی • (çiftci)

1. farmer, agriculturist, husbandman, a person who raises crops and tends animals

   Synonyms: اكینجی (ekinci), دهقان (dihkan), فلاح (fellah)

Derived terms

• چفتجیلك (çiftcilik, “husbandry, agriculture”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çiftçi
• → Albanian: çifçi
• → Armenian: չիֆթճի (čʻiftʻči), ⇒ Չիֆթճյան (Čʻiftʻčyan)

Further reading

• 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