Where the Romanian word “bacșiș” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
Din tc. bahșis.
→ Turkish · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish بخشش ← Persian بخشش
- In film dialogue
- 10 times per million words · number 4,076 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- under once per million
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 2.5 16 7.8 19 8.9 - Swap in a synonym
- premiu (Learned Latin), mită (Old Slavic), ciubuc (Turkish)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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