Where does “آشجی” come from?

آشجی (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Persian آش, from Proto-Turkic (i)aĺ — food, meal.

آشجی (Ottoman Turkish): cook, chef, cuisinier, trencher-man, an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry

Definitions

  1. cook, chef, cuisinier, trencher-man, an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry

Ancestry of “آشجی”, step by step

آشجی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian آش

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianآشthick Persian-style soup; pottage
2Proto-Turkic(i)aĺfood, meal

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـجیoccupational suffix
2Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix

Words derived from “آشجی”

Every word from Proto-Turkic (i)aĺ →Every word from Persian آش →