كمیجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كمی (gemi, “ship”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كمیجی • (gemici)

1. shipman, sailor, a person in the business of navigating ships

Descendants

• Turkish: gemici
• → Armenian: կեմիճի (kemiči)
• →⇒ Bulgarian: гемиджия (gemidžija), Гемеджиев (Gemedžiev)

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 4024
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمیجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575