كمی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گمی (gemi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹ̄mi (“boat”); cognate with Azerbaijani gəmi, Chuvash кимӗ (kimĕ), Kazakh кеме (keme), Kyrgyz кеме (keme), Shor кебе, Turkmen gämi, Tuvan хеме (xeme), Uyghur كېمە (këme) and Uzbek kema.

Noun

كمی • (gemi)

1. ship, a water-borne vessel larger than a boat

   Synonyms: سفینه (sefine), فلك (fulk), كشتی (keşti)

Derived terms

• كمیجی (gemici, “shipman, sailor”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gemi
• → Aromanian: ghimii, ghemii, ghimie, ghemie
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܵܡܝܼ (gāmī) (or from Azerbaijani)
• → Central Kurdish: گەمێ (gemê), گەمیە (gemye) (or from Azerbaijani)
• → Georgian: გემი (gemi)
  • → Armenian: գեմի (gemi) (Tbilisi)
• → Laz: ჯემი (cemi)
• → Mingrelian: გემი (gemi)
• → Romanian: ghimie

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gemi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1678
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كمی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Navis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1122
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4023
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gemi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1575