خمبره‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

خمبره (humbara, kumbara) +‎ ـجی (cı, occupational suffix)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kumbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ], [xumbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ], [humbɑɾɑˈdʒɯ]

Noun

خمبره‌جی • (humbaracı, kumbaracı)

bombardier

Descendants

Turkish: Kumbaracı (family name)
→ Greek: κουμπαρατζής (koumparatzís)
→ Hungarian: kumbaraczi, kumbaracsi
→ Romanian: cumbaragiu
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: кумба̀раџија, кумбара̀џија

Latin script: kumbàradžija, kumbaràdžija

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خمبره‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 864

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