خراججی
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- խարաճճը (haraccı) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
From خراج (harac, “tax, tribute”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
خراججی • (haraccı)
- tax collector, taxman, one who has the responsibility for collecting taxes
Derived terms
- خراججی باشی (haraccı başı, “chief tax collector”)
Descendants
- Turkish: haraççı
- → Armenian: ⇒ Խարաճճյան (Xaraččyan)
- → Bulgarian: ⇒ Харачеров (Haračerov), Харичеров (Haričerov)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haraççı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1871
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خراججی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 534
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خراججی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 836