حمامجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From حمام (hamam, “hammam, Turkish bath”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

حمامجی • (hamamcı)

  1. the director of a hammam or Turkish bath
    Սէնի համամճը էտէն՝ պէնի տէ քիւլհանճը էտէր։ (Armeno-Turkish, proverb)[1]
    Seni hamamcı eden, beni de külhancı eder.
    He that made you owner of the bath, will make me servant of the same.

Derived terms
  • حمامجیلق (hamamcılık, “the work or duty of a hammam director”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: hamamcı
  • → Albanian: hamamxhi
  • → Armenian: համամճի (hamamči), համամչի (hamamčʻi), ⇒ Համամչյան (Hamamčʻyan)

References
  1. Sōmalean, Sukʻias (1843) Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkerenē yangġiakan ew i hay barbaṙ [A Pocket Dictionary of the Turkish, English and Armenian Languages], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 220

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamamcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1856
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حمامجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 201b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حمامجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balneator”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 113
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حمامجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1804
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حمامجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 804
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