كمركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كمرك (gümrük, “custom house, customs”) +‎ ـجی (cı, -çü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كمركجی • (gümrükçü)

1. any officer of the custom house

Descendants

• Turkish: gümrükçü
• → Romanian: ghiumbrucciu

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1573