بوجاقلو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بوجاق (bucak) +‎ ـلو (-lı).

Adjective

بوجاقلو • (bucaklı)

that has corners and angles

Noun

بوجاقلو • (bucaklı)

someone from Bessarabia

Proper noun

بوجاقلو • (Bucaklı)

the name of several villages in Turkey

Descendants

Turkish: bucaklı, Bucaklı
→ Armenian: պուճախլը (pučaxlə), ⇒ Բուչակլյան (Bučʻaklyan)
→⇒ Laz: ბუჯაქლიში (bucaklişi, surname)
- → Turkish: Bucaklişi

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Bucaklı”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوجاقلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 392

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