قامشجق

Ottoman Turkish

قامشجق

Etymology

From قامش (kamış, “reed”) +‎ ـجق (-cık, diminutive suffix).

Noun

قامشجق • (kamışcık)

1. Diminutive of قامش (kamış, “reed”):
   1. nozzle, a short pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel
   2. blowpipe, a narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame

Descendants

• Turkish: kamışcık

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامشجق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامشجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425