binbashi

English

Alternative forms

• bimbashi

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بیكباشی (binbaşı, literally “leader of a thousand”).

Noun

binbashi (plural binbashis)

1. A major in the Turkish army.
2. (historical) The holder of a former rank in the Egyptian army.
   • 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce”, in Punch:

     Bimbashi Hilary Joyce, seconded from the Royal Mallow Fusiliers, […] made his first appearance in Cairo.

Related terms

• yuzbashi
• onbashi
• chiliarch

Translations

major in the Turkish army

• Polish: bimbasza m