اوطه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اودا (oda), اوده (oda)

Etymology

Vulgar spelling of Ottoman Turkish اوتاق (otak), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ōtag.

Noun

اوطه • (oda)

1. room, chamber, vault
2. office, department
3. (military) janissary barracks

Derived terms

• اوطه باشی (oda başı, “chief of a chamber of servants”)
• اوطه‌جی (odacı, “office-keeper”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: oda
• Turkish: oda
• → Albanian: odë
• → Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: أوضة (ʔōḍa)

  North Levantine Arabic: أوضة (ʔūḍa)

  South Levantine Arabic: أوضة (ʔōḍa)

• → Armenian: օտա (ōta), օ̈դա (öda)
• → Bulgarian: одая́ (odajá)
• → Crimean Tatar: oda
• → Greek: οντάς (ontás)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: ode

  → Central Kurdish: ھۆدە (hode)

• → Macedonian: одаја (odaja)
• → Romanian: odaie
  • → Hungarian: hodály
• → Serbo-Croatian: òdaja / о̀даја
• → Zazaki: ode, oda

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “oda”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 897a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوطه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 493–494
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 255