اوطه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوطه (oda, “room, chamber; office, department”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

اوطه‌جی • (odacı)

1. office-keeper in any large establishment

Descendants

• Turkish: odacı
• → Albanian: odaxhi
• →⇒ Armenian: Օդաջյան (Ōdaǰyan)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوطه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 256