اوطه باشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوطه (oda, “room, janissary barracks”) + باش (baş, “head, chief”). Compare Kazakh отбасы (otbasy).

Noun

اوطه باشی • (oda başı)

1. the chief of a chamber of servants
2. the officer in command of an oda (barracks) among the janissaries
3. a kind of steward in charge of the rooms in a khan

Descendants

• Turkish: odabaşı
• → Azerbaijani: odabaşı
• → Armenian: օդաբաշի (ōdabaši), ⇒ Օդաբաշյան (Ōdabašyan)
• → Greek: οτάμπασις (otámpasis), οντάμπασης (ontámpasis), ⇒ ντάμπασης (ntámpasis)
• → Georgian: ოდაბაში (odabaši)
• → Hungarian: oda basa, oda posa, oda basi
• →⇒ Laz: ოდაბაშიში (odabaşişi)
• → Romanian: odabaș, odobaș
• → Serbo-Croatian: òdabaša, ⇒ Òdabašić, ⇒ Òdobašić

Further reading

• Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 307
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوطه باشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوطه باشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 495–496
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 255