bekçi

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bekshi — Tosk

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بكجی (bekçi, “guard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bekˈt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: bek‧çí

Noun

bekçi m (plural bekçinj, definite bekçiu, definite plural bekçinjtë)

1. (archaic) rural police, ranger, field patrol (watchman appointed to guard crops)

   Synonym: pendar

Declension

Declension of bekçi

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bekçi	bekçiu	bekçinj	bekçinjtë
accusative		bekçiun
dative	bekçiu	bekçiut	bekçinjve	bekçinjve
ablative			bekçinjsh

Further reading

• “bekçi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “bekçi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bekçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 73

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بكجی (bekçi, “guard”).

Noun

bekçi

1. guard

Further reading

• “bekçi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu