بكلر بكی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
بكلر بكی • (beyler beyi) (plural بكلر بكیلر (beyler beyiler))
- a lord of lords; a governor-general; beylerbey
Derived terms edit
- بكلر بكیلك (beyler beyilik)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: beylerbeyi
- → Armenian: պէյլէրպէյի (pēylērpēyi)
- → English: beylerbey
- → French: beylerbey
- → Romanian: beilerbei
Further reading edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بكلر بكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 377
- Şemseddin Sami (1889) “بكلر بكی”, in Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 2, Constantinople: Mihran, page 535