بیگیرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بیگیر‎ (beygir, “pack horse”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بیگیرجی • (beygirci)

renter of pack horses

Descendants

Turkish: beygirci
→ Armenian: պէկիրճի (pēkirči), ⇒ Պէյկիրճեան (Pēykirčean), Պէկիրճեան (Pēkirčean)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “beygirci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 572
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بیگیرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بیگیرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424

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