خدمتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خدمتچی (hizmetçi)
• խըտմէթճի (hıdmetci), խըզմէթճի (hızmetci) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From خدمت (hizmet, “service”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

خدمتجی • (hidmetci or hizmetci)

1. servant, one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties

   Synonyms: اوشاق (uşak), خدمتكار (hizmetkâr)

Descendants

• Turkish: hizmetçi
• → Armenian: խըզմէթճի (xəzmētʻči), խըզմա̈թջի (xəzmätʻǰi)

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^[1], 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^[2], Vienna, column 1868
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خدمتجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 834