باجاق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بجاق (bacak), باجق (bacak)

Etymology

According to Nishanyan, the word is directly from Middle Turkic [script needed] (bağacak) or [script needed] (bağancak, "the lower part of the horse's and sheep's leg"); which has evolved from Old Turkic [script needed] (baḳačuk, “bicep muscle, the purlin part of the horse's foot”). Diminutive of Old Turkic [script needed] (baka, “frog”). Compare Latin mūsculus for semantic development.

Noun

باجاق • (bacak)

1. leg, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle

   Synonym: آیاق (ayak)

2. thigh, the part of the leg between the hip and the knee

   Synonyms: اویلق (uyluk), بوت (but)

3. shank, the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle

   Synonym: اینجك (incik)

4. knave, jack in playing cards

   Synonyms: اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti)

Coordinate terms

Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل (iskambil) (layout · text)
بك (bey), برلی (birli)	ایكیلی (ikili)	اوچلی (üçlü)	درتلی (dörtlü)	بشلی (beşli)	آلتیلی (altılı)	یدیلی (yedili)
سكزلی (sekizli)	طقوزلی (dokuzlu)	اونلی (onlu)	باجاق (bacak), اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti)	قیز (kız)	پاپاز (papaz)

Derived terms

• آرد باجاق (ard bacak, “hind leg”)
• باجاق قلمی (bacak kalemi, “shinbone”)
• باجاقسز (bacaksız, “short-legged”)
• باجاقلو (bacaklı, “long-legged”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bacak
• → Armenian: պաճախ (pačax), բաջաղ (baǰaġ)
• → Bulgarian: баджа́к (badžák)
• → Greek: μπατζάκι (batzáki)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ба̏та̄к, ба̀джак

  Latin script: bȁtāk, bàdžak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bacak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 415
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Femen”, 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 561
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باجاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 627
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bacak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “باجاق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 158