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  1. bashi-bazouknoun

    An irregular soldier of the Ottoman army.

  2. Etymology: From başıbozuk.

Wikipedia

  1. 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

  1. Bashi-bazouknoun

    a soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bashi-bazouk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bashi-bazouk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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