بكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, equivalent to پك (pek, “firm, strong”) +‎ ـجی (-çı, “occupational suffix”), so someone who watches out steadily.

Noun

بكجی • (bekçi)

1. guard, sentry, watchman

Descendants

• Turkish: bekçi
• → Albanian: bekçi
• → Armenian: պեքճի (pekʻči)
• → Bulgarian: бекчи́я (bekčíja)
• → Macedonian: бекчија (bekčija)
• → Romanian: becciu
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бѐкчија

  Latin script: bèkčija