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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From حمام (hamam, “hammam, Turkish bath”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
حمامجی • (hamamcı)
- 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
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حمام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 668
- 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