English words from Ottoman Turkish
- eyaletA former administrative division or province of the Ottoman Empire.
- feraceA long coat, part of the traditional dress of Muslim women.
- galiongeeA Turkish sailor.
- hasekiThe chief consort of an Ottoman sultan; later, any of several consorts of the sultan.
- hatti-sherifIn the Ottoman Empire, an edict countersigned by the sultan.
- hodjaA Muslim schoolmaster.
- ibrikA long-spouted pitcher, typically made of brass.
- iç oğlanA 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.
- imaretAn Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf.
- iradeA decree issued by a Muslim ruler.
- jelickThe bodice of women or vest of men worn in the Ottoman Empire.
- jereedA blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights.
- jezveA Turkish coffee-pot with a long handle.
- kadiaskerSynonym of kazasker.
- kadilukThe jurisdiction of a qadi.
- kashkavalA group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans.
- kataifiA very fine, vermicelli-like pastry used to make desserts in various Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, particularly Palestinian.
- kavassA Turkish armed policeman or courier
- kaymakamAn Ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of Constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
- 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.
- KerbelaSynonym of Karbala, a city in Iraq.
- KhashuqjiA transliteration of the Arabic surname خَاشُقْجِي (ḵāšuqjī).
- LazistanThe sanjak comprising the Laz or Lazuri-speaking population on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.
- leblebiA kind of snack made from roasted chickpeas
- medjidieA coin of the Ottoman Empire, worth twenty piasters.
- metallikA unit of currency of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century; used in Crete during the Russian occupation.
- mudirA local official of the Ottoman Empire who oversaw a nahiye.
- muhassilA senior public official under the Ottoman Empire charged with tax collection.
- mutasarrifThe governor of a province in some Muslim contexts, particularly (historical) in the Ottoman Empire.
- OsmanliSynonym of Ottoman.
- padishahA ruler of a Muslim country or state.
- palankaA permanently entrenched wooden camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
- pashalikThe jurisdiction or the territory of a pasha.
- pastirmaA highly seasoned, air-dried cured beef in Ottoman cuisine.
- rahat lokumSynonym of locoum.
- 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.
- sanjakA district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
- sanjakateSynonym of sanjak.
- sanjakbeyAn official of the Ottoman Empire who oversaw a sanjak.
- ScandaroonA swindler.
- selamlikPart of a Turkish palace or house kept for men.
- selictarThe swordbearer of a Turkish chief; a member of a Turkish cavalry corps.
- seraskierA commander in the Ottoman Empire.
- shadirvanA fountain for ablutions, usually attached to a mosque.
- sipahiAn Algerian cavalryman in the French army.
- softaA religious student, especially in Turkey
- StamboulSynonym of Istanbul (a city in Turkey).
- TanzimatA period of modernizing reform in the Ottoman Empire that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.
- TerekemeSynonym of Karapapakh.
- tophaikeA Turkish musket
- turbehA small mausoleum built over the grave of a high-ranking or holy Muslim, especially under the Ottomans.
- TurkmanSynonym of Turkmen.
- vilayetA province, particularly (historical) the first-level administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
- yataghanA type of sword used in Muslim countries from the mid-16th to late 19th centuries.
- YeniceA town in Çanakkale Province, western Turkey.
- yufkaA thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.
- yurukA kind of Turkish rug from Konya and Karaman regions.
- zarfAn ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker.
- zerdeA Turkish dessert resembling rice pudding, coloured yellow with saffron.
- ziametA form of land tenure in the Ottoman Empire.