باتاقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh; gambling den”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باتاقجی • (batakcı)

1. knocker, defaulter, one who defaults or fails on payment of a wager

Derived terms

• باتاقجیلق (batakcılık, “fraudulence”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: batakçı
• → Armenian: պաթախճի (patʻaxči), բաթաղչի (batʻaġčʻi)
• → Albanian: batakçi
• → Bulgarian: батакчи́я (batakčíja)
• → Greek: μπαταξής (bataxís), μπανταξής (bantaxís)
• → Macedonian: батакчија (batakčija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: батакчѝја, батькчѝја

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 252
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315