بكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, equivalent to پك (pek, “firm, strong”) +‎ ـجی (-çı, “occupational suffix”), so someone who watches out steadily.

Noun

بكجی • (bekçi)

guard, sentry, watchman

Descendants

Turkish: bekçi
→ Albanian: bekçi
→ Armenian: պեքճի (pekʻči)
→ Bulgarian: бекчи́я (bekčíja)
→ Macedonian: бекчија (bekčija)
→ Romanian: becciu
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: бѐкчија

Latin script: bèkčija