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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From خدمت (hizmet, “service”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
خدمتجی • (hidmetci or hizmetci)
- servant, one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties
- Synonyms: اوشاق (uşak), خدمتكار (hizmetkâr)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hizmetçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1976
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خدمتجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 533
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خدمتچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1868
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خدمتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 834