قامچی

• قامجی (kamçı)

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”), Kipchak قمچی (kamçı).

قامچی • (kamçı)

1. whip

   Synonyms: قرباچ (kırbaç), تازیانه (taziyane)

• قامچیلمق (kamçılamak)

• Turkish: kamçı
• → Arabic:

  North Levantine Arabic: قَمْچة (qamče), قَمْشة (qamše)

  South Levantine Arabic: قَمْشة (qamše)

  Iraqi Arabic: قَمْچي (qamči)

  Egyptian Arabic: قَمْشَة (ʔamša) (rare)

  Yemeni Arabic: قَامِس (gāmis), قَامِش (qāmiš)

  • →? Tigre: ሐነጅ (ḥänäǧ)
• → Armenian: ղամչի (ġamčʻi), խամչի (xamčʻi), կամշի (kamši)
• → Bulgarian: камчи́я (kamčíja), камджи́я (kamdžíja)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qamçî

  Central Kurdish: قەمچی (qemçî), قامچی (qamçî)

• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀нџија, ка̀мџија

  Latin script: kàndžija, kàмdžija

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• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 935b
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• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “288. CAMǦÍCǍ sb. f. pl. camǧitse”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 95
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423b