قومجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوم (kum, “sand”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

قومجی • (kumcu)

sand-merchant, a person that trades and sells sand

Descendants

Turkish: kumcu
→⇒ Armenian: Գումճյան (Gumčyan)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kumcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2835
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قومجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 990

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