خمسی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek χαψί (chapsí), χαμψί (champsí). Compare Russian хамса́ (xamsá).

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Noun

خمسی • (hamsı)

1. anchovy

Descendants

• Turkish: hamsi
• → Bulgarian: хамси́я (hamsíja)
• → Middle Armenian: խամսի (xamsi)
• → Romanian: hamsie

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamsi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1860b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خمسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 551b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خمسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 864b