باجه

See also: باجة and باچة

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• باجا (baca)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian باجه (bâja, “window, vent”), a contraction from earlier بادجاه (bâdjâh), from باد (bâd, “wind, air”) + جاه (jâh, “road, passage”).

Noun

باجه • (baca)

1. any small opening in a roof that admits air or light, like a skylight
2. chimney, flue, a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit smoke

   Synonym: اوجاق (ocak)

3. any flue or other shaft of the same character, such as a sewer ventilator or a mineshaft
4. (provincial) the flat terraced roof of a house

Derived terms

• آیدینلق باجه (aydınlık bacası, “spiracle”)
• دام باجهسی (dam bacası, “opening in a roof”)
• واپور باجهسی (vapur bacası, “chimney of a steamship”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: baca
• → Macedonian: баџа (badža)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bàdža, баџа

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 415
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “baca”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 31a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Caminus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باجه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 628
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316