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English
Etymology
From various Balkan languages, all from Ottoman Turkish قومیتهجی (komitacı), from Ottoman Turkish قومیته (komita) from French comité (“committee”) + ـجی (-cı).
Pronunciation
Noun
comitadji (plural comitadjis)
- (historical) A member of a unit of irregular soldiers or resistance fighters; a partisan.
1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 808:For a summer he worked as a comitadji in Macedonia, and later joined the Serbian Army during the Balkan wars.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 61:He was a former comitadji who had been involved in fomenting unrest in Bosnia after the annexation of 1908 and was even rumoured to have commanded guerrilla bands.