بشیكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بشیك (beşik, “cradle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بشیكجی • (beşikci)

maker or seller of cradles

Descendants

Turkish: beşikçi
→⇒ Armenian: Բեշիկչյան (Bešikčʻyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beşikçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 565
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بشیكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 267
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بشیكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 367

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