طولومبه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طولومبه (tulumba, “pump”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

طولومبه‌جی • (tulumbacı)

pumpman, a maker or operator of pumps
(figuratively) roughneck, a rowdy or uncouth person

Derived terms

طولومبه‌جیلق (tulumbacılık, “quality and functions of a pumpman”)

Descendants

Turkish: tulumbacı
→ Albanian: tullumbaxhi
→ Algerian Arabic: طرمبجي (ṭrombēcī)
→ Armenian: թուլումպաճի (tʻulumpači), ⇒ Թուլումբաջյան (Tʻulumbaǰyan)
→ Bulgarian: тулумбаджия (tulumbadžija)
→ Greek: τουλουμπατζής (touloumpatzís)
→ Romanian: tulumbagiu
→ Aromanian: tulumbagi

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulumbacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4906
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولومبه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولومبه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262

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