Where does “قلبورجی” come from?

قلبورجی (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish قلبور, from Persian غربال, from Arabic غِرْبَال, from Arabic ـِيّ — {{n-g|suffix used to derive adjectives and...

قلبورجی (Ottoman Turkish): maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles

Definitions

  1. maker or seller of sieves, riddles, strainers or cribbles

Ancestry of “قلبورجی”, step by step

قلبورجی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish قلبور

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishقلبورsieve, screen, cribble, riddle any device used to separate larger particles from smaller ones
2Persianغربالsieve, riddle, cribble, strainer, sifter
3Arabicغِرْبَالsieve
4Arabicـِيّ{{n-g|suffix used to derive adjectives and...

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

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