مابینجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مابین (mabeyin, “room or set of rooms between the harem and the selamlik”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

مابینجی • (mabeyinci)

1. chamberlain, an official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs of the sultan

Derived terms

• باش مابینجی (baş mabeyinci, “archchamberlain”)
• مابینجیلك (mabeyincilik, “chamberlainship”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mabeyinci

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mabeyinci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2997
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مابینجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1088
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابینجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651