قصاب بیچاغی

Ottoman Turkish

قصاب بیچاغی

Etymology

From قصاب (kasâb, “butcher”) + بیچاق (bıçak, “knife”).

Noun

قصاب بیچاغی • (kasâb bıçağı)

1. butcher's knife, a large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats

Descendants

• Turkish: kasap bıçağı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kasap bıçağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2454
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قصاب بیچاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 300
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قصاب بیچاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1455