بچقی

Ottoman Turkish

بچقی

Alternative forms

• بیچقی (bıçkı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bïčkï (“saw”), from the verb *bïč- (“to cut”); cognate with Azerbaijani biçki, Bashkir бысҡы (bısqı) and Turkmen byçgy.

Noun

بچقی • (bıçkı)

1. saw, a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances

   Synonyms: اره (erre), منشار (minşar)

Derived terms

• بچقیجی (bıçkıcı, “maker or seller of saws”)
• بچقیخانه (bıçkıhane, “sawmill”)
• ساقز بچقیسی (sakız bıçkısı, “ripsaw”)
• صو بچقیسی (su bıçkısı, “water saw”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bıçkı
• → Armenian: պըչխի (pəčʻxi)
• → Macedonian: бичкија (bičkija)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bıçkı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 583
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیپقی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Serra”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بچقی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 713
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bıçkı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بچقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 341