بشیك

Ottoman Turkish

بشیك

Alternative forms

• بشك (beşik)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bēšik (“cradle”); cognate with Azerbaijani beşik, Bashkir бишек (bişek), Chuvash пелче (pelč̬e), Kazakh бесік (besık), Kyrgyz бешик (beşik), Turkmen bişek, Uyghur بۆشۈك (böshük), Uzbek beshik and Yakut биһик (bihik).

Noun

بشیك • (beşik)

1. cradle, a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots

   Synonyms: گهواره (gehvare), مهد (mehd)

Derived terms

• اجل بشیكی (ecel beşiği, “kind of big swing”)
• بشیكجی (beşikci, “maker or seller of cradles”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: beşik
• → Armenian: բեշիկ (bešik), պեշիկ (pešik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beşik1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 565
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بشیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 267
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cunæ”, 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 309
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 832
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beşik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بشیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 367