باجاقسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Adjective

باجاقسز • (bacaksız)

1. short-legged, squat, dwarfish
2. (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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 232
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باجاقسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 316