بالطه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بالطه (balta, “axe, hatchet, battle axe”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بالطه‌جی • (baltacı)

1. maker or seller of axes, hatchets or battle axes
2. (historical) halberdier, a soldier armed with a battle axe who guarded the access to the harem

   Synonym: تبردار (teberdar)

Descendants

• Turkish: baltacı
• → Armenian: պալթաճի (paltʻači), ⇒ Բալթաջյան (Baltʻaǰyan), Փալթաջյան (Pʻaltʻaǰyan), Պալթաջյան (Paltʻaǰyan), Պալտաջյան (Paltaǰyan), Պալտաճյան (Paltačyan)
• → Egyptian Arabic: بلطجي (balṭagi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baltacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالطه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securifer”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1530
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالته‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 683
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[4], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 54