kamçı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قامچی (kamçı, “whip”), from Proto-Turkic *kamčï (“whip”), from Proto-Turkic *kam- (“to beat, strike down”).
Cognate with Kyrgyz камчы (kamcı), Azerbaijani qamçı, Uzbek qamchi, Uyghur قامچا (qamcha), Karakhanid قَمْجٖى (qamčï̄, “whip”). Also compare Karakhanid قَمّاقْ (qammāq, “to beat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kamçı (definite accusative kamçıyı, plural kamçılar)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “kamçı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Further reading
[edit]- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kamçı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 626