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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قمار (kumar, “gambling”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
قمارجی • (kumarcı)
- 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
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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 971
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قمارجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1472