بیكیرجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بیگیر (beygir, “pack horse”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

بیگیرجی • (beygirci)

1. renter of pack horses

Descendants

• Turkish: beygirci
• → Armenian: պէկիրճի (pēkirči), ⇒ Պէյկիրճեան (Pēykirčean), Պէկիրճեան (Pēkirčean)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beygirci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 572
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیكیرجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 303
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیكیرجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 424