Noun: comitadji
| Singular | comitadji |
| Plural | comitadjis |
Sample Sentences
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For a summer he worked as a comitadji in Macedonia, and later joined the Serbian Army during the Balkan wars. [1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 808:]
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He was a former comitadji who had been involved in fomenting unrest in Bosnia after the annexation of 1908 and was even rumoured to have commanded guerrilla bands. [2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 61:]
Nouns inflected like comitadji
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From various Balkan languages, all from Ottoman Turkish قومیتهجی (komitacı), from Ottoman Turkish قومیته (komita) from French comité (“committee”) + ـجی (-cı). See: French Nouns '
comité'.