باجاقسز
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From باجاق (bacak, “leg”) + ـسز (-siz, “-less”)
Adjective
باجاقسز • (bacaksız)
- short-legged, squat, dwarfish
- (figuratively) insignificant and miserable
Derived terms
- باجاقسزلق (bacaksızlık, “short-leggedness”)
Descendants
- Turkish: bacaksız
- → Armenian: պաճախսըզ (pačaxsəz)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bacaksız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 416
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجاقسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاقسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316