بك
Iraqi Arabic edit
Noun edit
بَكْ (bak)
- Alternative form of بَگْ (bag)
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Noun edit
بك • (bey) (plural بكلر (beyler))
- ruler
- the ace in card- and boardgames
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Turkish: bey
- → Albanian: bej
- → Arabic: بِيه (bīh), بَاي (bāy), بَيْك (bayk), بِيك (bīk), بِك (bik)
- → Armenian: բեկ (bek)
- → Bulgarian: бей (bej)
- → Dutch: bei, beg
- → English: bey
- → Finnish: bey
- → French: bey
- → Georgian: ბაი (bai), ბეგი (begi)
- → German: Bey
- → Greek: μπέης (béis), βέης (véis)
- → Hungarian: bey, bég
- → Latin: begus
- → Macedonian: бег (beg)
- → Portuguese: bei
- → Romanian: bei
- → Russian: бек (bek), бей (bej)
- → Serbo-Croatian: beg / бег
- → Spanish: bey
See also edit
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- افندی (efendi)
References edit
- Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “بك”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 204
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Turkic *beŋ (“mole on the face”).[1]
Cognate with Bashkir миң (miñ), Kyrgyz мең (meŋ), Kazakh мең (meñ) Turkmen meň, Yakut мэҥ (meñ).
Alternative forms edit
- պէն (ben), պէնք (benk) — Armeno-Turkish
Noun edit
بك • (beñ)
Related terms edit
- بكك (beñek, “spot, speckle”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: ben
- → Armenian: պէնկ (pēnk), պէնք (pēnkʻ)
- → Bulgarian: бе́нка (bénka)
- → Ladino: benk
- → Macedonian: бенка (benka)
- → Serbo-Croatian: bȇn／бе̑н
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*beŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
بك • (beñ)
Etymology 4 edit
From Proto-Turkic *bek (“firm, solid”).
Adjective edit
بك • (bek)
- Alternative form of پك (pek, “very; firm, solid”).
Descendants edit
- Turkish: bek (dialectal)
References edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 375