باشجی

باشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

باش‎ (baş, “head”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-çı, occupational suffix).

Noun

باشجی • (başçı)

1. a seller of ready-cooked sheep's heads

Descendants

• Turkish: Başçı (surname)
• → Armenian: պաշճի (pašči)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “باشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326