قامچی

See also: قامجی and قامچئ

Ottoman Turkish[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).

قامچی • (kamçı)

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:
Northern Kurdish: qamçî

Central Kurdish: قەمچی (qemçî), قامچی (qamçî)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ка̀нџија, ка̀мџија

Latin script: kàndžija, kàмdžija

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aromanskiot]‎^[3], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 95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