قمچی

See also: قامجی and قامچئ

Kipchak

Alternative forms

• قمشی (kamşı)
• խամչի (χamčï) — Armeno-Kipchak

Etymology

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”), Ottoman Turkish قامچی (kamçı).

Noun

قمچی (kamçı)

1. whip, lash, scourge

Descendants

• North Kipchak:
  • Bashkir: ҡамсы (qamsı)
  • Tatar: камчы (qamçı)
• West Kipchak:
  • Karachay-Balkar: къамчи (qamçi)
  • Karaim: камчу, камцу (kamtsu), къамучу (qamuçu), къамучы (qamuçı), къамчу (qamçu)
  • Kumyk: къамучу (qamuçu)
• Central Kipchak:
  • Kazakh: қамшы (qamşy)
  • Nogai: камыши (kamışi)
• East Kipchak:
  • Kyrgyz: камчы (kamcı)
  • Southern Altai: камчы (kamčï)
• → Abaza: къамчы (qʼamćə)
• → Abkhaz: а-ҟамчы (a-qʼamčə)
• → Belarusian: канчу́к (kančúk)
• → Bulgarian: камши́к (kamšík), камчи́к (kamčík), камжи́к (kamžík), камджи́к (kamdžík)
  • → Albanian: kamxhik, kamzhik, kamçik
  • → Aromanian: camgicã, cãmgicã, cãmcichi, cãmciche
  • → Greek: καμτζίκι (kamtzíki)
  • → Macedonian: камшик (kamšik)
• → Polish: kańczuk, kańczug
• → Russian: камча́ (kamčá), камчу́г (kamčúg)
• → Ubykh: кхъамч, кхъамчы
• → Ukrainian: канчу́к (kančúk)

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kamçı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 626
• Garkavec, A. N. (2018) “χamčï”, in Kypčakskij slovarʹ. Po armjanopisʹmennym pamjatnikam XVI—XVII vekov [Kipchak dictionary. Based on the monuments of 16–17th centuries written in the Armenian script]‎^[1] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Almaty: BAUR, →ISBN, page 792b
• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 14 (١٤) line 6
• Tryjarski, Edward (1968–1972) “χamč̣i”, in Dictionnaire arméno-kiptchak d’après trois manuscrits des collections viennoises – Słownik ormiańsko-kipczacki na podstawie trzech rękopisów ze zbiorów wiedeńskich, volume I, Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, page 445

Urdu

Etymology

Ultimately from Turkic (likely via Chagatai [Term?]). Compare Kipchak قمچی (kamçı).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊm.t͡ʃiː/

Noun

قُمْچی • (qumcī) f (Hindi spelling क़मची)

1. whip
2. branch, twig
3. stick