اوطه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

اوطه‌جی • (odacı)

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

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