اوطه باشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اوطه (oda, “room, janissary barracks”) + باش (baş, “head, chief”). Compare Kazakh отбасы (otbasy).

Noun

اوطه باشی • (oda başı)

  1. the chief of a chamber of servants
  2. the officer in command of an oda (barracks) among the janissaries
  3. a kind of steward in charge of the rooms in a khan

Descendants
  • Turkish: odabaşı
  • → Azerbaijani: odabaşı
  • → Armenian: օդաբաշի (ōdabaši), ⇒ Օդաբաշյան (Ōdabašyan)
  • → Greek: οτάμπασις (otámpasis), οντάμπασης (ontámpasis), ⇒ ντάμπασης (ntámpasis)
  • → Georgian: ოდაბაში (odabaši)
  • → Hungarian: oda basa, oda posa, oda basi
  • →⇒ Laz: ოდაბაშიში (odabaşişi)
  • → Romanian: odabaș, odobaș
  • → Serbo-Croatian: òdabaša, ⇒ Òdabašić, ⇒ Òdobašić

Further reading
  • Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 307
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوطه باشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 191
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوطه باشی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 495–496
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 255
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