بك

See also: بک and تک

Iraqi Arabic

Noun

بَكْ (bak)

1. Alternative form of بَگْ (bag)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.

Noun

بك • (bey) (plural بكلر (beyler))

1. ruler
2. the ace in card- and boardgames

Derived terms

• بك اوغلی (Bey Oğlu)
• بكلر بكی (beyler beyi)
• بكلك (beylik)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bey
• → Albanian: bej
• → Arabic: بِيه (bīh), بَاي (bāy), بِك (bik)
• → Armenian: բեկ (bek)
• → Bulgarian: бей (bej)
• → Dutch: bei, beg
• → English: bey
• → Finnish: bey
• → French: bey
• → Georgian: ბაი (bai), ბეგი (begi)
• → German: Bey
• → Greek: μπέης (béis), βέης (véis)
• → Hungarian: bey, bég
• → Latin: begus
• → Macedonian: бег (beg)
• → Portuguese: bei
• → Romanian: bei
• → Russian: бек (bek), бей (bej)
• → Serbo-Croatian: beg / бег
• → Spanish: bey

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)

• افندی (efendi)

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 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 204

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *beŋ (“mole on the face”).

Cognate with Bashkir миң (miñ), Kyrgyz мең (meŋ), Kazakh мең (meñ) Turkmen meň, Yakut мэҥ (meñ).

Alternative forms

• պէն (ben), պէնք (benk) — Armeno-Turkish

Noun

بك • (beñ)

1. freckle; mole

Related terms

• بكك (beñek, “spot, speckle”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ben
• → Armenian: պէնկ (pēnk), պէնք (pēnkʻ)
• → Bulgarian: бе́нка (bénka)
• → Ladino: benk
• → Laz: ბენი (beni), ბენგი (bengi) — Lome
• → Macedonian: бенка (benka)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bȇn／бе̑н

Etymology 3

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

• Turkish: bek (dialectal)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 375