كومورجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كومور (kömür, “coal”) +‎ ـجی (-ci, -cü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كومورجی • (kömürcü)

1. charcoal burner or dealer

Descendants

• Turkish: kömürcü
• → Albanian: qymyrxhi
• → Armenian: քէօմիւրճիւ (kʻēōmiwrčiw), ⇒ Քյոմյուրճյան (Kʻyomyurčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kömürcü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2783
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومورجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carbonarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 152
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومورجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4093
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومورجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[5], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 170