بالطه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بالطه (balta, axe, hatchet, battle axe) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بالطه‌جی • (baltacı)

  1. maker or seller of axes, hatchets or battle axes
  2. (historical) halberdier, a soldier armed with a battle axe who guarded the access to the harem
    Synonym: تبردار (teberdar)

Descendants

  • Turkish: baltacı
  • Armenian: պալթաճի (paltʻači), Բալթաջյան (Baltʻaǰyan), Փալթաջյան (Pʻaltʻaǰyan), Պալթաջյան (Paltʻaǰyan), Պալտաջյան (Paltaǰyan), Պալտաճյան (Paltačyan)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baltacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالطه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securifer”, 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, Vienna, column 1530
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالته‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 683
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 54
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