قامچی

See also: قامجی and قامچئ

Ottoman Turkish

قامچی

Alternative forms

• قامجی (kamçı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamčï (“whip”), a derivation from *kam- (“to beat, strike down”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qamçı, Bashkir ҡамсы (qamsı), Karakhanid قَمْجٖى (qamčï̄), Kazakh қамшы (qamşy), Kyrgyz камчы (kamcı), Turkmen gamçy, Uyghur قامچا (qamcha) and Uzbek qamchi.

Noun

قامچی • (kamçı) (definite accusative قامچیی (kamçıyı), plural قامچیلر (kamçılar))

1. whip, lash, a pliant, flexible instrument used to direct and herd animals, or to strike a person as a punishment

   Synonyms: تازیانه (taziyane), سوط (savt), قرباچ (kırbaç)

Derived terms

• عربه‌جی قامچیسی (ʼarabacı kamçısı, “whip used by a carter”)
• قامچی اورمق (kamçı urmak, “to whip”)
• قامچی باشی (kamçı başı, “sort of coarse cloth”)
• قامچی قلج (kamçı kılıc, “sort of narrow-bladed sabre”)
• قامچی قویروق (kamçı kuyruk, “nag, useless horse”)
• قامچی چالمق (kamçı çalmak, “to whip”)
• قامچی یمك (kamçı yemek, “to receive a whipping”)
• قامچیلامق (kamçılamak, “to whip”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kamçı
• → Albanian: kamxhik
• → 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

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قامچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 472
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kamçı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2369
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قامچی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 352b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامچی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 935b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Flagellum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 587
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامچی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 3597–3598
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kamçı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “288. CAMǦÍCǍ sb. f. pl. camǧitse”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[5], 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^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423b