نوبتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

نوبت (nevbet, nöbet) +‎ ـجی (-ci).

Noun

نوبتجی • (nevbetçi, nöbetçi)

1. guard, patrol, man who keeps watch (also attributive)

Descendants

• Turkish: nöbetçi
• → Albanian: nobetçi
• → Algerian Arabic: نوباجي (nūbāji) (calque)
• → Egyptian Arabic: نبطشي (nabaṭši)
• → South Levantine Arabic: [script needed] (nôbatči)
• → Armenian: նէօպէթճի (nēōpētʻči)
• → Bulgarian: небетчи́я (nebetčíja)
• → Georgian: ნობეთჯი (nobetǯi) — Chveneburi
• → Greek: νομπεττσής (nompettsís), νοπετζίδες pl (nopetzídes)
• → Macedonian: небетчија (nebetčija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: небетчија

  Latin script: nebetčija

• → Turoyo: [script needed] (nobačči)

References

• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[1], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 179
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) “nöbetçi”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 125