اوطه باشی

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From اوطه (oda, room, janissary barracks) + باش (baş, head, chief). Compare Kazakh отбасы (otbasy).

Noun

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اوطه باشی (oda başı)

  1. the chief of a chamber of servants
  2. the officer in command of an oda (barracks) among the janissaries
  3. a kind of steward in charge of the rooms in a khan

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 307
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوطه باشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوطه باشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 495–496
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 255