بك

بك

See also: بک‎ and تک‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

See modern Turkish bey

Noun

بك • (beg) (definite accusative بكی‎)

1. ruler
2. the ace in card- and boardgames

Descendants

• Turkish: bey (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings

• → Arabic: بِيه‎ (bīh), بَاي‎ (bāy), بَيْك‎ (bayk), بِيك‎ (bīk), بِك‎ (bik)
• → Bengali: বেগ (beg)
• → Central Kurdish: بەگ‎ (beg)
• → Dutch: beg
• → English: beg, bek
• → Hindi: बेग़ (beġ)
• → Hungarian: bég
• → Japanese: ベグ (begu)
• → Latin: begus
• → Persian: بگ‎ (beg), بیگ‎ (beyg)
• → Macedonian: бег (beg)
• → Romanian: bei
• → Russian: бек (bek)
• → Serbo-Croatian: beg / бег

See also

Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل‎ (iskambil) (layout · text)
بك (bey), برلی‎ (birli)	ایكیلی‎ (ikili)	اوچلی‎ (üçlü)	درتلی‎ (dörtlü)	بشلی‎ (beşli)	آلتیلی‎ (altılı)	یدیلی‎ (yedili)
سكزلی‎ (sekizli)	طقوزلی‎ (dokuzlu)	اونلی‎ (onlu)	باجاق‎ (bacak), اوغلان‎ (oğlan), فانتی‎ (fanti)	قیز‎ (kız)	پاپاز‎ (papaz)

• افندی‎ (efendi)

References

• Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “بك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 204

Etymology 2

See modern Turkish ben (“mole”).

Noun

بك • (beñ)

1. freckle; mole

Related terms

• بكك‎ (beñek, “spot, speckle”)

Noun

بك • (beñ)

1. Alternative form of بان‎ (ban, “moringa”)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Turkic *bek (“firm, solid”).

Adjective

بك • (bek)

1. Alternative form of پك‎ (pek, “very; firm, solid”).

Descendants

• (dialectal) Turkish: bek

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 375