باشی بوزوق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
باش (baş, “head”) + بوزوق (bozuk, “broken, in poor condition, (military) irregular”)
Noun edit
- irregular soldier
- civilian
Descendants edit
- Turkish: başıbozuk
- → Armenian: բաշիբոզուկ (bašibozuk)
- → English: bashi-bazouk
- → French: bachi-bouzouk
- → Greek: βασιβουζούκος (vasivouzoúkos)
References edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 287
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “başıbozuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 398
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN