قوناقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوناق (konak, “alighting; station, inn, billet”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قوناقجی • (konakcı)

1. quartermaster, an officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops

Descendants

• Turkish: konakçı
• → Armenian: խօնախճի (xōnaxči)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “konakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2729
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوناقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 991
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوناقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1498