بك

See also: بک‎ and تک‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

See modern Turkish bey

Noun

بك • (beg) (definite accusative بكی‎)

  1. ruler
  2. the ace in card- and boardgames
Descendants
  • Turkish: bey (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings
  • → Arabic: بِيه‎ (bīh), بَاي‎ (bāy), بَيْك‎ (bayk), بِيك‎ (bīk), بِك‎ (bik)
  • → Bengali: বেগ (beg)
  • → Central Kurdish: بەگ‎ (beg)
  • → Dutch: beg
  • → English: beg, bek
  • → Hindi: बेग़ (beġ)
  • → Hungarian: bég
  • → Japanese: ベグ (begu)
  • → Latin: begus
  • → Persian: بگ‎ (beg), بیگ‎ (beyg)
  • → Macedonian: бег (beg)
  • → Romanian: bei
  • → Russian: бек (bek)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: beg / бег
See also
    Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل‎ (iskambil) (layout · text)
    بك (bey), برلی‎ (birli) ایكیلی‎ (ikili) اوچلی‎ (üçlü) درتلی‎ (dörtlü) بشلی‎ (beşli) آلتیلی‎ (altılı) یدیلی‎ (yedili)
    سكزلی‎ (sekizli) طقوزلی‎ (dokuzlu) اونلی‎ (onlu) باجاق‎ (bacak), اوغلان‎ (oğlan), فانتی‎ (fanti) قیز‎ (kız) پاپاز‎ (papaz)

    References
    • 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, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 204

    Etymology 2

    See modern Turkish ben (“mole”).

    Noun

    بك • (beñ)

    1. freckle; mole
    • بكك‎ (beñek, “spot, speckle”)

    Noun

    بك • (beñ)

    1. Alternative form of بان‎ (ban, “moringa”)

    Etymology 4

    From Proto-Turkic *bek (“firm, solid”).

    Adjective

    بك • (bek)

    1. Alternative form of پك‎ (pek, “very; firm, solid”).
    Descendants
    • (dialectal) Turkish: bek

    References
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