بیاغی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بیغی (bayağı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bayakı, from *baya (“previously mentioned, recent, former”) + *ok (“emphasis postposition”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bayağı, Kazakh баяғы (baäğy), Karakhanid بَیا اُقْ (bayā oq), Kyrgyz баякы (bayakı), Southern Altai байагы (bayagï), Uyghur بايا (baya) and boyagi.

Adjective

بیاغی • (bayağı)

1. simple, plain, basic, unembellished, lacking adornment, ornamentation, or additions

   Synonyms: بسیط (basit), ساده (sade)

2. ordinary, common, mundane, everyday, vulgar, having no special characteristics or functions

   Synonym: وسط (vasat)

3. coarse, rude, uncouth, unrefined, crude, lacking manners, refinement, taste, or delicacy

   Synonyms: قبا (kaba), یوغون (yoğun)

Adverb

بیاغی • (bayağı)

1. simply, plainly, just, outright, in a simple or plain way

Derived terms

• باس بیاغی (bas bayağı, “quite common”)
• بیاغی بر آدم (bayağı bir adam, “labourer”)
• بیاغی سوز (bayağı söz, “vulgar word”)
• بیاغی مال (bayağı mal, “junk, rubbish, tat”)
• بیاغیلق (bayağılık, “uncouthness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bayağı
• → Armenian: պայաղը (payaġə)
• → Bulgarian: бая́ (bajá)
• → Macedonian: бајаги (bajagi)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bajàgi, баја̀ги

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بیاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 355
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayağı1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 508
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بیاغی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 137b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 298
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Simplex”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1557
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیاغی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 967
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 417