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 (ġamčʿi), խամչի (xamčʿi), կամշի (kamši)
• → Bulgarian: камчи́я (kamčíja), камджи́я (kamdžíja)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qamçî

  Central Kurdish: قەمچی‎ (qemçî), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀нџија, ка̀мџија

  Latin script: kàndžija, kàмdžija

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kamçı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 626
• 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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 95
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قامچی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1423b