بیچاقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• պըչագճը (bıçakcı) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From بیچاق (bıçak, “knife”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix). First attested in 1611.

Noun

بیچاقجی • (bıçakcı)

1. cutler, knifesmith, a maker or seller of knives

   Synonym: سلونز (sülünez)

Derived terms

• بیچاقجیلق (bıçakcılık, “cutlery”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bıçakçı
• → Armenian: պուչախճի (pučʻaxči), փուչախչի (pʻučʻaxčʻi), բուչախչի (bučʻaxčʻi), ⇒ Բիչախչյան (Bičʻaxčʻyan), Բուչախչյան (Bučʻaxčʻyan), Բչախչյան (Bčʻaxčʻyan), Պչաքճյան (Pčʻakʻčyan)
• → Bulgarian: бичакчи́я (bičakčíja)
• → Cretan Greek: μπιτσαξής (bitsaxís), μπιτσακτσής (bitsaktsís)
• → Cypriot Greek: πιτσ̌αξ̌ής (pitšax̌ís)
• → Macedonian: бичакчија (bičakčija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bičàkčija, бичàкчија

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bıçakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 582
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیچاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 72
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cultrarius”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 308
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیچاقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 711
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیچاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 418
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[5], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 57
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) “bıçakcı”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 35