Definitions For Kaymakam

Noun

KAYMAKAM (plural KAYMAKAMs) A lieutenant or deputy in various turkish contexts, particularly (politics, historical) An ottoman empire, ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent. {{quote-book, en, year=1645, author=James Howell, title=Epistolae Ho-elianae..., volume=iii, page=87 (politics, historical) An ottoman empire, ottoman official who acted as beylerbey of egypt between regular appointments. (politics, historical) An ottoman empire, ottoman official who acted as hospodar of moldavia or wallachia during any absence or illness of the incumbent. (military, historical) A lieutenant colonel in the ottoman empire, ottoman or early turkish army, replaced by the rank of yarbay. (politics, historical) {{synonym of, en, sanjakbey}} during the mid-19th century. (politics, historical) An ottoman empire, ottoman official who oversaw a kaza during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; similar positions in Ottoman successor states. (politics) A local administrator in turkey, northern cyprus, iraq, and lebanon.

Coordinate terms

wali, sanjakbey, mutasarrif, mudir kaza, kaymakamlik

Related terms

kaymaˈkamlik

Translations

Albanian: kajmekam, m French: caïmakam Hungarian: kajmakám Ottoman Turkish: قایمقام (kaymakam) Romanian: caimacam Turkish: kaymakam

Alternative forms

qaimaqam, qaim maqam kaimakam; kaimacon, kaimacan, kaimakan, kaimacham, kaimacam {{q, obsolete}} caimacon, caimacan, caimakan, caimacham, caimacam, caimakam {{q, obsolete}} caimaicon, caimaican, caimaikan, caimaicham, caimaicam, caimaikam {{q, obsolete}} caymacon, caymacan, caymakan, caymacham, caymacam, caymakam {{q, obsolete}} chaimacon, chaimacan, chaimakan, chaimacham, chaimacam, chaimakam {{q, obsolete}} chaymacon, chaymacan, chaymakan, chaymacham, chaymacam, chaymakam {{q, obsolete}}

Etymology

From {{bor, en, ota, قایمقام, tr=kaymakam}}, from {{der, en, ar, مَقَام, tr=-}} قَائِم, , stand in, tr=qāʔim maqām. {{root, en, ar, ق و م}}