بشیكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بشیك (beşik, “cradle”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بشیكجی • (beşikci)

1. maker or seller of cradles

Descendants

• Turkish: beşikçi
• →⇒ Armenian: Բեշիկչյան (Bešikčʻyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beşikçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 565
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بشیكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 267
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بشیكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 367