Hazinedar
{{Short description|Rank in the hierarchy of the Ottoman Empire}}
{{Other uses|Hazinedar (surname)}}
{{Lang|tr|Hazinedar}} or {{Lang|tr|Haznadar}}{{cite book|last=Gilson|first=Erika Hitzigrath|title=The Turkish grammar of Thomas Vaughan: Ottoman-Turkish at the end of the XVIIth century according to an English "Transkriptionstext"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FiVkAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|isbn=978-3-447-02759-5|page=167}} (from {{langx|fa|خزینهدار}}, {{lit.|treasurer}}{{NoteTag|Etymologically, a compound word originated from the Arabic noun {{lang|ar|خزینة}}, {{lit.|treasure}}, and Persian verbal suffixoid {{lang|fa|-دار}}, {{lit.|holder, owner}}, i.e. indicating ownership. More etymological info on: Wikt: خزينة, Wikt: دار, and Wikt: -dar. Also: Wikt: hazinedar.}}) is a title in Ottoman Empire hierarchy. Depending on the suffix or prefix it had different meanings. The English language translation of the word is a treasurer.{{cite book|last=Rastrow|first=A.A.|title=Rahnama Turkish-English-Persian Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-M8yb1agN-0C&pg=PA191|date=1 December 2002|publisher=Alhoda UK|isbn=978-964-6054-70-7|page=191}}
Treasurer
The chief {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}} headed the personnel of the sultan's treasury.{{cite book|title=Bulgarian historical review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enNpAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences|page=57}} {{Lang|tr|Hazinedar}}s subordinated to the chief {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}} had a title of {{Lang|tr|hazinedar kalfa}}. Kalfa is Turkish for 'apprentice'. {{Lang|tr|Hazinedar agha}} was the title of the chief eunuch treasurer.{{cite book|last=Vahit|first=Ahmet|title=Türkçe-İngilizce sözlük: A Turkish-English dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbFDAQAAIAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Kâğit ve Başim Ísleri|page=465|quote=hazinedar-aga, (formerly) chief eunuch treasurer; treasurer of a grandee.}}
Lord (housemistress) of the sultan's palace and harem
The high {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}} or first {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}} or {{Lang|tr|hazinedar usta}} was a title for the housemistress of the sultan's palace, the most influential person after the prince. There were other {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}}s in the Ottoman hierarchy (the second, third...) who were subordinated to the first {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}}, hence referred to as {{Lang|tr|usta}} ('superintendent').{{cite book|title=The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuZTefumFSQC&pg=PT176|date=1 January 2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78335-5|pages=176, 166}} Only the first {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}} could approach the sultan and other nobility, while the second, third and other {{Lang|tr|hazinedar}}s served the first {{Lang|tr|hazenidar}}.{{cite book|last=Orientalnej|first=Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Instytut Filologii|title=Turks and non-Turks: studies on the history of linguistic and cultural contacts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAEXAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Institute of Oriental Philology Jagiellonian University|isbn=978-83-7188-891-5|page=524|quote=The head of them had the title of hazinedar usta. Only hazinedar usta could sit near the Sultan and the other ones, the second hazinedar and the third hazinedar, served him. }}
Note
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