باشمقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• باشماقچی (başmakçı)

Etymology

From باشمق (başmak, “flat shoe, like slippers or babouches”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

باشمقجی • (başmakcı)

1. shoemaker, a maker or seller of shoes, especially slippers, babouches and pantofles

   Synonym: پابوججی (pabuccu)

Descendants

• Turkish: başmakçı

Başmakçı district

Proper noun

باشمقجی • (başmakcı)

1. Başmakçı (a town and district in Afyonkarahisar province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Başmakçı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “başmakçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 499
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باشمقجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sutor”, 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 1642
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشمقجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 665
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Başmakçı”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشمقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Başmakçı”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 92