Glossary of Useful Terms

There’s plenty of data out there if you know what to put into Google… and if you speak Turkish. These are some of the words that unlock Google.

ana – mother

avrat – woman involved in immoral activities

azadli – freed slave

bikr-i bâliğa – unmarried woman

cariye – female slave

cedde – grandmother

defter, plural defterleri  – a section of official records (and a lot of other things)

hâlike olan – term for a deceased Muslim woman

kadın – woman

kaynana – mother-in-law

kebire kızı – adult daughter

kız – girl

kızı – daughter

memluk – purchased slave

müdebber – a slave promised his freedom upon the death of his owner

mühtediye – a title for a woman who accepted Islam

mutallaka – divorced woman

müteveffiye – term for a deceased Muslim woman

nasraniyye – Christian

Osmanlı – Ottoman

sagire kızı – prepubescent daughter

şeriye sicilleri, şer’iye sicili – Sharia court records

tahrir defterleri – tax records

tereke defterleri – estate records

transkripsiyon – transcription

valide – mother

zevc – husband

zevce – wife

zevce-i metrûke – widow

zimmi – a non-Muslim living in Muslim lands

Expressions from Court Records

nam kimesne, nâm kimesneler – follows the name of the first party.

mahzarında or muvâcehesinde – Literally “in the womb,” meaning both parties are in court at the same time.

âzat ettiği, âzat ettiğini – Frees, freed. Literally “favored.” “Ali Bey b. Karaca’nın Çerkez asıllı câriyesini vasiyetle âzat ettiği” = “Ali Bey b. Karaca verily freed his Çerkez-born slave.”

merhûm, merhûme – deceased

mezbûr, mezbûre – said previously, the forenamed

asıllı – born. “Frenk asıllı” = “Frankish-born.”

hurre l-asl – freeborn

Nazyürür’ün mülk-i mahzıdır – “is the property of Nazyürür”

mülkü – property

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