bashibazoukとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• bashibazouk

語源

From Turkish başıbozuk, from Ottoman Turkish باشی بوزوق (“an irregular soldier”). Literally, “broken-head”.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bæʃɪbəˈzuːk/

名詞

bashi-bazouk (plural bashi-bazouks)

1. 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.

派生語

• bashi-bazoukery