باشجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From باش (baş, “head”) + ـجی (-çı, occupational suffix).
Noun
باشجی • (başçı)
Descendants
- Turkish: Başçı (surname)
- → Armenian: պաշճի (pašči)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 663–664
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326