English words from Ottoman Turkish
- BalkanOf or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
- reisThe holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
- divanA Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan).
- MehmetA male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
- vizierA high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
- balaclavaA type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.
- KozakA surname.
- dervishA member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars.
- aghaAn honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries.
- nizamThe hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
- SeljukOf or related to Seljuk, to his dynasty, to their empire in southwestern Asia, or to the period of their rule from the 11th–14th centuries.
- BenghaziA port city in eastern Libya.
- MehmedA male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
- namazSynonym of salat (“Islamic prayer”).
- IzmitA city in Kocaeli Province, Turkey.
- kadinA woman of a sultan's harem
- bigaA Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.
- UrfaA city in southeastern Turkey.
- IznikA town in Turkey.
- BalaibalanA constructed language of certain Sufi sects created around the 14th–16th century.
- befezzedWearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.
- binbashiA major in the Turkish army.
- bostanjiOne of the imperial guards of the Ottoman Empire.
- cadileskerSynonym of kazasker.
- calpackA kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.
- chiausAn Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
- comitadjiA member of a unit of irregular soldiers or resistance fighters; a partisan.
- derbendciThe guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief.
- DerbentA city in Dagestan, Russia.
- galiongeeA Turkish sailor.
- imaretAn Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
- kadiaskerSynonym of kazasker.
- kazaskerA chief judge in the Ottoman Empire. There were two kadiaskers: the Rumeli Kadiaskeri, who oversaw the European part of the empire, and the Anadolu Kadiaskeri, who oversaw the Asian part.
- KhashuqjiA transliteration of the Arabic surname خَاشُقْجِي (ḵāšuqjī).
- medjidieA coin of the Ottoman Empire, worth twenty piasters.
- muhassilA senior public official under the Ottoman Empire charged with tax collection.
- RoumeliThe area of the Greek mainland north of the Peloponnese; Central Greece, especially seen as a district of the Ottoman Empire.
- RumeliaA former region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.
- sanjakateSynonym of sanjak.
- selamlikPart of a Turkish palace or house kept for men.
- seraskierA commander in the Ottoman Empire.
- shadirvanA fountain for ablutions, usually attached to a mosque.
- tophaikeA Turkish musket
- YeniceA town in Çanakkale Province, western Turkey.
- yurukA kind of Turkish rug from Konya and Karaman regions.
- zerdeA Turkish dessert resembling rice pudding, coloured yellow with saffron.
- ziametA form of land tenure in the Ottoman Empire.