{"id":15119,"date":"2018-01-30T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T12:27:28","slug":"bags-satchels-and-briefcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15119","title":{"rendered":"Bags, satchels and briefcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Romanian the word for a satchel, school bag or briefcase is <strong>ghiozdan<\/strong> [gi\u02c8ozdan]. When I learnt this, I wondered where it might come from &#8211; it certainly doesn&#8217;t look Latin or Slavic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghiozdan<\/strong> actually comes from the Turkish word <em>c\u00fczd\u0103n<\/em> (wallet, billfold, purse, pocket book). <\/p>\n<p>A related word is <em>serviet\u0103<\/em> (briefcase), which comes from the French <em>serviette<\/em> (towel, napkin, serviette, briefcase).<\/p>\n<p>There are in fact quite a few <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:Romanian_terms_derived_from_Turkish\">Romanian words borrowed from Turkish<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bac\u0219i\u0219 = tip, gratuity; baksheesh. From <em>bah\u015fi\u015f<\/em> (tip)<br \/>\n&#8211; basma = handkerchief. From the Turkish <em>basma<\/em> (printed cloth)<br \/>\n&#8211; degeaba = for nothing, for free; in vain. From the Turkish <em>caba<\/em> (effort)<br \/>\n&#8211; liliac = lilac; bat. From the Turkish <em>leylak<\/em> (lilac)<br \/>\n&#8211; murdar = dirty. From the Turkish <em>murdar<\/em> (uncleanly)<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ro.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ghiozdan\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/#tr\/en\/c%C3%BCzd%C4%83n\">Google Translate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Romanian the word for a satchel, school bag or briefcase is ghiozdan [gi\u02c8ozdan]. When I learnt this, I wondered where it might come from &#8211; it certainly doesn&#8217;t look Latin or Slavic. Ghiozdan actually comes from the Turkish word c\u00fczd\u0103n (wallet, billfold, purse, pocket book). A related word is serviet\u0103 (briefcase), which comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-romanian","category-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}