باشاقجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From باشاق (başak, “ear of corn, spike”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
باشاقجی • (başakcı)
- gleaner, one who gathers the grains left in the fields
Descendants
- Turkish: başakçı
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “باشاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “باشاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 325