باجاقسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From باجاق (bacak, “leg”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, “-less”)

Adjective

باجاقسز • (bacaksız)

short-legged, squat, dwarfish
(figuratively) insignificant and miserable

Derived terms

باجاقسزلق (bacaksızlık, “short-leggedness”)

Descendants

Turkish: bacaksız
→ Armenian: պաճախսըզ (pačaxsəz)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bacaksız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 416
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باجاقسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاقسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316

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