اوطه‌جی

اوطه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوطه‎ (oda, “room, chamber; office, department”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوطه‌جی • (odacı)

1. office-keeper in any large establishment

Descendants

• Turkish: odacı
• →⇒ Armenian: Օդաջյան (Ōdaǰyan)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوطه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوطه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 256