بیچاق

Azerbaijani

Noun

بێچاق (bıçaq)

1. Arabic spelling of bıçaq (“knife”)

Declension

Declension of بیچاق

	singular	plural
nominative	بیچاق	بیچاقلار
definite accusative	بێچاغێ	بیچاقلارێ
dative	بێچاغا	بیچاقلارا
locative	بیچاقدا	بیچاقلاردا
ablative	بیچاقدان	بیچاقلاردان
definite genitive	بێچاغێن	بیچاقلارێن

Ottoman Turkish

بیچاق

Alternative forms

• بچاق (bıçak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïčgak (“knife”); cognate with Azerbaijani bıçaq, Bashkir бысаҡ (bısaq), Kazakh пышақ (pyşaq), Kyrgyz бычак (bıcak), Tatar пычак (pıçaq), Turkmen pyçak, Uyghur پىچاق (pichaq) and Uzbek pichoq.

Noun

بیچاق • (bıçak)

1. knife, a tool designed for cutting, especially a table knife

   Synonyms: سكین (sikkin), كارد (kard)

Derived terms

• باغجی بیچاغی (bağcı bıçağı, “pruning knife”)
• بیچاق یاره‌سی (bıçak yarası, “scar caused by a knife injury”)
• بیچاقجی (bıçakcı, “cutler”)
• دباغ بیچاغی (debbağ bıçağı, “head knife”)
• قصاب بیچاغی (kasab bıçağı, “butcher's knife”)
• قولاقلو بیچاق (kulaklı bıçak, “large kitchen knife”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bıçak
• → Romanian: briceag
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: би̏ча̄к
  • Latin script: bȉčāk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bıçak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 582
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بچاق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 109a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیچاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culter”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 308
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بچاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 711
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bıçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیچاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 418