binbashi

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بیكباشی (binbaşı, literally “leader of a thousand”).

Noun

binbashi (plural binbashis)

  1. A major in the Turkish army.
  2. (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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