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bashi-bazouk
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bashi-bazouknoun
An irregular soldier of the Ottoman army.
Etymology: From başıbozuk.
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Bashi-bazouk
A bashi-bazouk (Ottoman Turkish: باشی بوزوق başıbozuk, IPA: [baʃɯboˈzuk], lit. 'one whose head is turned, damaged head, crazy-head', roughly "leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, raised in times of war. The army chiefly recruited Albanians and Circassians as bashi-bazouks, but recruits came from all ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire including slaves from Europe or Africa. They had a reputation for bravery, but also as an undisciplined and brutal group, notorious for looting and preying on civilians as a result of a lack of regulation and of the expectation that they would support themselves off the land.
Webster Dictionary
Bashi-bazouknoun
a soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army
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Bashi-bazouk
A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. They were particularly noted for their lack of discipline.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bashi-bazouk
bash′i-ba-zōōk′, n. a Turkish irregular trooper. They are mostly Asiatics, and are brutal plundering ruffians, capable, as in 1876 in Bulgaria, of the most devilish atrocities. [Turk. bashi-bozuq.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bashi-bazouk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bashi-bazouk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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