بیكباشی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- بیڭباشی (biñbaşı)
Etymology[edit]
بیك (biñ, “thousand”) + باش (baş, “leader”)
Noun[edit]
بیكباشی • (biñbaşı)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: binbaşı
- → Armenian: պինպաշի (pinpaši), բինբաշի (binbaši)
- → Egyptian Arabic: بكباشي (bimbashi)
- → English: binbashi, bimbashi
- → Macedonian: бимбашија (bimbašija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: bȉmbaša, би̏мбаша
- → Swahili: bimbashi
References[edit]
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیكباشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424