حمامجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• համամճը (hamamcı) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From حمام (hamam, “hammam, Turkish bath”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

حمامجی • (hamamcı)

1. the director of a hammam or Turkish bath

   Սէնի համամճը էտէն՝ պէնի տէ քիւլհանճը էտէր։ (Armeno-Turkish, proverb)

   Seni hamamcı eden, beni de külhancı eder.

   He that made you owner of the bath, will make me servant of the same.

Derived terms

• حمامجیلق (hamamcılık, “the work or duty of a hammam director”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hamamcı
• → Albanian: hamamxhi
• → Armenian: համամճի (hamamči), համամչի (hamamčʻi), ⇒ Համամչյան (Hamamčʻyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamamcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1856
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حمامجی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 201b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حمامجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balneator”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 113
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حمامجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1804
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حمامجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 804