چورباجی

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

چوربه‌جی (çorbacı)

Etymology

چوربا (çorba, “soup”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, “occupational suffix”)

Noun

چورباجی • (çorbacı)

(literally) soup vendor
(military) official title for a colonel of the Janissaries
(rare) official receiver and entertainer of guests in a village
conventional title applied Christian members of the rural elite, heads of villages and rich peasants in the Ottoman Empire

Descendants

Turkish: çorbacı (“soup vendor, Christian member of the rural elite”)
Bulgarian: чорбаджия (čorbadžija, “wealthy peasant, kulak, boss”)
Greek: τσορμπατζής (tsormpatzís, “wealthy peasant, village mayor”)
Armenian: չորպաճի (čʻorpači, “wealthy peasant”) (Western Armenian), Չորբաջյան (Čʻorbaǰyan)
Macedonian: чорбаџија (čorbadžija, “wealthy peasant, boss”)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: чорбаџија (“wealthy peasant”)

Latin script: čorbadžija

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چورباجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 478
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چورباجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 735

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