bashi-bazouk
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See also: bashibazouk
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Turkish başıbozuk, from Ottoman Turkish باشی بوزوق (“an irregular soldier, literally 'broken-head'”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bæʃɪbəˈzuːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
bashi-bazouk (plural bashi-bazouks)
- An irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, reputed to be undisciplined and brutal.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 336:
- In May 1876 the crisis deepened when Turkish irregular troops, known as bashi-bazouks, put twelve thousand Bulgarian Christians to the sword in a frenzy of blood-letting.
Derived terms
Translations
irregular soldier of the Ottoman army
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