كمیجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From كمی (gemi, “ship”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
كمیجی • (gemici)
- shipman, sailor, a person in the business of navigating ships
Descendants
- Turkish: gemici
- → Armenian: կեմիճի (kemiči)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “gemici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1678
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كمیجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Nauta”, 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, Vienna, column 1124
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “كمیجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4024
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كمیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575