كمركجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كمرك (gümrük, “custom house, customs”) +‎ ـجی (cı, -çü, occupational suffix).

Noun

كمركجی • (gümrükçü)

any officer of the custom house

Descendants

Turkish: gümrükçü
→ Romanian: ghiumbrucciu

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمركجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1573

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