باجی

From Proto-Turkic *bāča.

باجی • (bacı)

1. older sister
2. sister
3. wife

• Turkish: bacı
• → Persian: باجی‎ (bâji)
  • → Punjabi: باجی‎ (bājī)
  • → Urdu: باجی‎ (bājī)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “باجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “باجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316

From Ottoman Turkish باجی‎ (modern Turkish bacı).

باجی • (bâji)

1. sister
2. woman

• → Punjabi: باجی‎ (bājī)
• → Urdu: باجی‎ (bājī)

Borrowed from Classical Persian باجی‎ (bājī), itself from Ottoman Turkish باجی‎ (bacı) (from Proto-Turkic *bāča root).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.d͡ʒiː/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /bɑː.d͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: با‧جی

باجی • (transliteration needed) f (Hindi spelling बाजी)

1. older sister

   Synonyms: آپا‎ (āpā), آپی‎ (āpī)

   Antonym: لالہ‎ (lāla, “older brother”)

2. (polite) any female person

   Synonym: بہن‎ (bahan)

• “باجی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “باجی”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.