باج
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian باج (bâj), باژ (bâž).
Noun
باج • (bac)
- tribute, tax, especially a transit duty, a toll
- Synonym: كمرك (gümrük)
Descendants
- Turkish: bac
- → Serbo-Croatian: bádža / ба́џа
Derived terms
- باجكاه (bacgah)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “باج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “باج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 625–626
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “باج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315