binbashi
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Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish بیكباشی (binbaşı, literally “leader of a thousand”).
Noun[edit]
binbashi (plural binbashis)
- A major in the Turkish army.
- (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.
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major in the Turkish army
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