بشیكجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From بشیك (beşik, “cradle”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
بشیكجی • (beşikci)
Descendants
- Turkish: beşikçi
- →⇒ Armenian: Բեշիկչյան (Bešikčʻyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beşikçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 565
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بشیكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 267
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بشیكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 367