باشجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باش (baş, “head”) +‎ ـجی (-çı, occupational suffix).

Noun

باشجی • (başçı)

1. seller of ready-cooked sheep's heads

Descendants

• Turkish: Başçı (surname)
• → Armenian: պաշճի (pašči)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 663–664
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326