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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From باش(baş, “head”) + ـجی(-çı, occupational suffix).
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باشجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 663–664
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باشجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 326