خمسی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

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Noun

خمسی • (hamsı)

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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 551b
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خمسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 864b

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