قامچی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- قامجی (kamçı)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *kamčï (“whip”), a derivation from *kam- (“to beat, strike down”). Cognate with Karakhanid قَمْجٖى (qamčï̄, “whip”), قَمّاقْ (qammāq, “to beat”), Turkmen gamçy (“whip”), Kipchak قمچی (kamçı).
Noun
[edit]قامچی • (kamçı)
Derived terms
[edit]- قامچیلمق (kamçılamak)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kamçı
- → Arabic:
- North Levantine Arabic: قَمْچة (qamče), قَمْشة (qamše)
- South Levantine Arabic: قَمْشة (qamše)
- Iraqi Arabic: قَمْچي (qamči)
- Egyptian Arabic: قَمْشَة (ʔamša) (rare)
- Yemeni Arabic: قَامِس (gāmis), قَامِش (qāmiš)
- →? Tigre: ሐነጅ (ḥänäǧ)
- → Armenian: ղամչի (ġamčʻi), խամչի (xamčʻi), կամշի (kamši)
- → Bulgarian: камчи́я (kamčíja), камджи́я (kamdžíja)
- → Kurdish:
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
[edit]- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kamçı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 626
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 935b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 3597–3598
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kamçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “288. CAMǦÍCǍ sb. f. pl. camǧitse”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot][3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 95
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423b