قومجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوم (kum, “sand”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

قومجی • (kumcu)

1. sand-merchant, a person that trades and sells sand

Descendants

• Turkish: kumcu
• →⇒ Armenian: Գումճյան (Gumčyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kumcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2835
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قومجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 990