قمارجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قمار (kumar, “gambling”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

قمارجی • (kumarcı)

1. gambler, throwster, one who habitually plays at a game of chance, one who gambles

   Synonym: قمارباز (kumarbaz)

Derived terms

• قمارجیلق (kumarcılık, “addiction to gambling”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kumarcı
• → Albanian: kumarxhi
• → Armenian: խումարճի (xumarči)
• → Bulgarian: комарджи́я (komardžíja)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قمار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 535
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kumarcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2834
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قمارجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 971
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قمارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1472