بوستانجی

Ottoman Turkish

بوستانجی

Etymology

بوستان (bôstân) +‎ ـجی (-cı).

Noun

بوستانجی • (bostancı)

1. gardener
2. a class of men, park ranger, bostanji, at the Sultan’s court, whose work has increased in time from tending the seraglio’s garden to mounting guard, rowing the Sultan’s barge, rowing the caiques of all the officers, and following them on business through the city, and also doing military duty with the janissaries, but not disbanded with them

Derived terms

• بوستانجیلق (bostancılık, “art of gardening”)

Descendants

most are used as last names too, capitalized if applicable

• Turkish: bostancı
• → Albanian: bostanxhi
• → Arabic: بُوسْتَانْجِي (būstānjī)
• → Aromanian: bustangi
• → Bulgarian: бостанджи́я (bostandžíja)
• → English: bostanji, bostangi
• → Byzantine Greek: μποσταντσί (mpostantsí), μποστανζί (mpostanzí)
  • Greek: μποσταντσί (bostantsí)
• → Macedonian: бостанџија (bostandžija)
• → Romanian: bostangiu
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin script: bostàndžija
  • Cyrillic script: боста̀нџија

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوستانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 923
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 59