خمبره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

خمبره‌جیلر

Etymology

خمبره (humbara, kumbara) +‎ ـجی (cı, occupational suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kumbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ], [xumbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ], [humbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ]

Noun

خمبره‌جی • (humbaracı, kumbaracı)

1. bombardier

Descendants

• Turkish: Kumbaracı (family name)
• → Greek: κουμπαρατζής (koumparatzís)
• → Hungarian: kumbaraczi, kumbaracsi
• → Romanian: cumbaragiu
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кумба̀раџија, кумбара̀џија

  Latin script: kumbàradžija, kumbaràdžija

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خمبره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 864