دربندجی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From دربند (derbend, “defile; Ottoman mountain outpost”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
[edit]دربندجی • (derbendci)
- (historical) derbendci, the guard charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: derbentçi
- → Albanian: dervenxhiu
- → Bulgarian: дервентджия (derventdžija)
- → English: derbendci
- → Italian: dervenci
- → Macedonian: дервенџија (dervendžija)
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “derbentçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1168
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دربندجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 221b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دربندجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 567
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دربندجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2048
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دربندجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 894