طولومبه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طولومبه (tulumba, “pump”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

طولومبه‌جی • (tulumbacı)

1. pumpman, a maker or operator of pumps
2. (figuratively) roughneck, a rowdy or uncouth person

Derived terms

• طولومبه‌جیلق (tulumbacılık, “quality and functions of a pumpman”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tulumbacı
• → Albanian: tullumbaxhi
• → Algerian Arabic: طرمبجي (ṭrombēcī)
• → Armenian: թուլումպաճի (tʻulumpači), ⇒ Թուլումբաջյան (Tʻulumbaǰyan)
• → Bulgarian: тулумбаджия (tulumbadžija)
• → Greek: τουλουμπατζής (touloumpatzís)
• → Romanian: tulumbagiu
• → Aromanian: tulumbagi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulumbacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4906
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولومبه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولومبه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262