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

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