ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

150Iustina Burcidârvar – a servant who had the obligation of bringing woods to themaster and to heat the rooms;diac – a person who wrote (and copied) the documents in the lord’soffice; he solved different administrative affairs;divictar – a title given to the boyar who provided the lord with thenecessary things for writing, inkpot, pens, sand, auriferous powder; an employeewho had in charge the inkpot of the high officials;edecciu – a man-servant of the lord who lead the horses for the parade;edcliu – a small man-servant at the lord’s courtfalaitar – a rider who walked in the front of the lord’s or boyar’scarriage;geamgirgiu – a lord’s employee, who took care of the lord’s clothes;globnic – a functionary that fulfilled the lord’s orders regarding thepenal and civil matters;grămătic – a writer in the office of a boyar or of an institution, asecretary, a professor or a court writer;heregiu – the secretary of the Divan, who read the petitions;ibrictar – an employee who brought the jar to the lord for washing hishands;iciceauş – the body guard of the lord (who also bore the flag);iciciohodar – the shoemaker (or the shoe seller) at the lord’s court;icirliu – the man inside the palace;idicliu – a lord’s man-servant who took care of the court’s horses;iedecliu – a boyar of lower rank in the service of the court;izbaşă – a secretary of the lord’s court and of the Great Divan, chargedwith the correspondence;jitnicer – a high official who took care of the court’s cereal warehouses;maimar başa – the architect of the court;medelnicer – a boyar who poured water for the lord to wash, was layingthe table and waited at table;muhurdar (muhurdagiu) – a lord’s man-servant charged with thekeeping of the seals;paharnic – the title given to the court’s boyar who took care of thelord’s drink, and for special occasions or on holydays he personally served upthe lord, tasting the drink in his front, in order to convince him that it is notpoisoned;paic – a soldier from the personal guard of the sultan or of theWalachia’s ruler;păhărnicel – a boyar of inferior rank, the subaltern of the paharnic;perdegiu (perdelegiu) – a man-servant charged with the guard of thecurtain door, situated at the entrance of the lord’s room or of the high official’sroom;peşchirgiu – a boyar of lower rank who gave the towel and the napkinto the lord;