فوچی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • فیچی (fıçı)

Etymology

    Borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττις (boúttis, barrel, cask), from Ancient Greek βοῦττῐς (boûttĭs), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

    Noun

    فوچی • (fuçı or fıçı) (definite accusative فوچیی (fuçıyı, fıçıyı), plural فوچیلر (fuçılar, fıçılar))

    1. barrel, cask, a round vessel made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends
      Synonym: برمیل (bermil)
    2. barrel, the quantity which constitutes a full barrel or cask, used as a unit of measure

    Derived terms

    • سركه فوچیسی (sirke fıçısı, vinegar barrel)
    • شراب فوچیسی (şarab fıçısı, wine barrel)
    • فوچی اوزومی (fıçı üzümü, grapes sold in barrels)
    • فوچی تخته‌سی (fıçı tahtası, stave of a barrel)
    • فوچی دیبی (fıçı dibi, grounds of a cask of wine)
    • فوچی شكری (fıçı şekeri, sugar in hogheads)
    • فوچی طپه‌سی (fıçı tapası, plug of a barrel)
    • فوچی قارنلو (fıçı karınlı, barrel-bellied)
    • فوچی مالی (fıçı malı, goods sold in a barrel)
    • فوچی پنیری (fıçı peniri, fresh cheese in brine)
    • فوچی چشمه‌سی (fıçı çeşmesi, plug of a barrel)
    • فوچیجی (fuçıcı, fıçıcı, cooper, barrelmaker)

    Descendants

    • Turkish: fıçı
    • Albanian: fuçi
    • Armenian: ֆըչի (fəčʻi), ֆիչի (fičʻi)
    • Ubykh: фыҽы (fəĉə)

    Further reading

    • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “فوچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 432
    • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “fıçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1573
    • Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “فوچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 346b
    • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فوچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 913
    • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Dolium”, 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 423
    • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “فوچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3555
    • Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 50
    • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “fıçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
    • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فوچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1399