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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹ̄mi (“boat”); cognate with Azerbaijani gəmi, Chuvash кимӗ (kimĕ), Kazakh кеме (keme), Kyrgyz кеме (keme), Shor кебе, Turkmen gämi, Tuvan хеме (xeme), Uyghur كېمە (këme) and Uzbek kema.
Noun
كمی • (gemi)
- ship, a water-borne vessel larger than a boat
- Synonyms: سفینه (sefine), فلك (fulk), كشتی (keşti)
Derived terms
- كمیجی (gemici, “shipman, sailor”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gemi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1678
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كمی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Navis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1122
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4023
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gemi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575