بوغاسی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوغاصی (boğası), بوحاسی (bohası)

Etymology

Possibly related to Arabic بَاغَزِيَّة (bāḡaziyya, “a kind of silk vestment”), but this is even obscurer and to be tracked for usage.

Noun

بوغاسی • (boğası)

1. a kind of twilled high-quality cotton used for garments, or particularly their linings

Descendants

• Turkish: boğası
• → Aromanian: buhasíe
• → Armenian: պողասի (poġasi)
• → Bulgarian: богаси́я (bogasíja)
• → Medieval Latin: bocassinus
  • → Old French: bougosi, boucacin, boucassin
    • French: bocassin, boucassin
      • → English: bocasine
  • → Italian: bocassino
    • → Navarro-Aragonese: bocací
      • Aragonese: bocací
    • → Old Spanish: bocací
      • Spanish: bocací
• → Romanian: bogasíu, bogasie
  • → German: Bogasie (Siebenbürgen)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бога̀сија, богосија

  Latin script: bogàsija, bogosija

  • → Hungarian: bagazia
    • → Serbo-Croatian: bagazija (Kajkavian)

References

• Corriente, Federico (2008) “بوغاسی”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 233–234
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “باغزية”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 139
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوغاسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 932
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوحاسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 910
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “233. BUHASÍE”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[4], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 91