English Explanatory Dictionary

iç oğlan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A boy servant or page who was taken from Christian parents in the Balkans and converted, according to the devshirme system in the Ottoman Empire, and who worked in the sultan's palace.

Word forms

iç oğlan iç oğlans

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ایچ اوغلانی (iç oğlanı), from ایچ (iç, “interior”) + اوغلان (oğlan, “boy”).

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