بچقیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بیچقیجی (bıçkıcı)

Etymology

From بچقی (bıçkı, “saw”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بچقیجی • (bıçkıcı)

1. maker or seller of saws
2. sawyer, one who saws timber

Descendants

• Turkish: bıçkıcı
• → Armenian: Պըչքըճյան (Pəčʻkʻəčyan)
• → Romanian: bischigiu

Further reading

More information

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bıçkıcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 583
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بچقیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Serrarius”, 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 1547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بچقیجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 713
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بچقیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 341
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 1)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[5], volume 137, number 1, →DOI, page 57
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) “bıçkıcı”, in Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 35