قامشجق

Ottoman Turkish

قامشجق

Etymology

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

Noun

قامشجق • (kamışcık)

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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامشجق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425

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