باشاقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باشاق (başak, “ear of corn, spike”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باشاقجی • (başakcı)

1. gleaner, one who gathers the grains left in the fields

Descendants

• Turkish: başakçı

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشاقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 239
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشاقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 325