بوستانجی

Ottoman Turkish

بوستانجی

Etymology

بوستان (bôstân) +‎ ـجی (-cı).

Noun

بوستانجی • (bostancı)

1. gardener
2. a class of men, park ranger, bostanji, at the Sultan’s court, whose work has increased in time from tending the seraglio’s garden to mounting guard, rowing the Sultan’s barge, rowing the caiques of all the officers, and following them on business through the city, and also doing military duty with the janissaries, but not disbanded with them

Derived terms

• بوستانجیلق (bostancılık, “art of gardening”)

Descendants

most are used as last names too, capitalized if applicable

• Turkish: bostancı
• → Albanian: bostanxhi
• → Arabic: بُوسْتَانْجِي (būstānjī)
• → Aromanian: bustangi
• → Bulgarian: бостанджѝя (bostandžìja)
• → English: bostanji, bostangi
• → Byzantine Greek: μποσταντσί (mpostantsí), μποστανζί (mpostanzí)
  • Greek: μποσταντσί (bostantsí)
• → Macedonian: бостанџија (bostandžija)
• → Romanian: bostangiǔ
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin script: bostàndžija
  • Cyrillic script: боста̀нџија

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوستانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 923