Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar) and Persian دار (dâr), literally "register keeper".

Noun

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دفتردار (defterdar)

  1. provincial treasurer

Descendants

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  • Turkish: defterdar

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دفتردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran