A type of Ottoman coin or a monetary unit; also spelled 'beshlik' or 'beşlik.'
From Turkish 'beş' (five) + '-lik' (suffix indicating quantity or denomination). Originally referred to a coin worth five of a smaller unit in Ottoman currency.
This word traveled from Ottoman Turkish into English via trade—unlike the 'be-' prefix words that are Old English fossils, 'beshlik' shows English borrowing from another language's coin systems.
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