بیچاق

بیچاق

Azerbaijani

Noun

بیچاق (bıçaq)

1. Alternative spelling of بێچاق‎ (bıçaq)

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Ottoman Turkish

بیچاق

Alternative forms

• بچاق‎ (bıçak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïčgak (“knife”); cognate with Azerbaijani bıçaq, Bashkir бысаҡ (bısaq), Kazakh пышақ (pyşaq), Kyrgyz бычак (bıçak), Tatar пычак (pıçaq), Turkmen pyçak, Uyghur پىچاق‎ (pichaq) and Uzbek pichoq.

Noun

بیچاق • (bıçak)

1. knife, a tool designed for cutting, especially a table knife

   Synonyms: سكین‎ (sikkin), كارد‎ (kard)

Derived terms

• باغجی بیچاغی‎ (bağcı bıçağı, “pruning knife”)
• بیچاقجی‎ (bıçakcı, “cutler”)
• بیچاق یاره‌سی‎ (bıçak yarası, “scar caused by a knife injury”)
• دباغ بیچاغی‎ (debbağ bıçağı, “head knife”)
• قصاب بیچاغی‎ (kassab bıçağı, “butcher's knife”)
• قولاقلو بیچاق‎ (kulaklı bıçak, “large kitchen knife”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bıçak
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: би̏ча̄к
  • Latin: bȉčāk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bıçak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 582
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Culter”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 308
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 711
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bıçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 418