cambaz

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جانباز (cānbāz), from Classical Persian جانباز (jânbâz)^[1] Compare Turkish cambaz, Azerbaijani canbaz, cambaz^[2]

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑmˈbɑz/
• Hyphenation: cam‧baz

cambaz (definite accusative cambazı, plural cambazlar)

1. contortionist, acrobat
   • 2021 February 4, “GHTya eni seçimnär, şindilik, olmayacek”, in Ana Sözü‎^[1]:

     Açıktan belliydi, ani bütün Gagauziya Halk Topluşu üstolan toplantısında yukardan iplär çekilirdi da GHT Başı hem Gagauziya Başkanın hem soțialistlär partiyasının adamnarı cambaz gibi oynardular hem işi bu karara götürärdilär

     It was appearently clear, that throughout all of Gagauzia People's Gathering higher-up metting the strings were held from up above and the head of GHT and the Gagauzia Governor and the socialist party's men were playing like acrobats and lead the deal to this decision

2. horse dealer
3. (figurative, derogatory) charlatan, fraud, scammer

   Synonym: aferist

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ӝамбаз”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 183
• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “cambaz”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 40

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جانباز (canbaz, cambaz), from Old Anatolian Turkish جانباز (cānbāz), from Classical Persian جانباز (jânbâz). Compare Azerbaijani canbaz, cambaz, Gagauz cambaz.

cambaz

1. acrobat (an athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination)
2. horse seller (a person who breeds and sells horses)
3. (figurative) sly, mischievous person

• cambazhane (“circus”)
• cambazlık

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cambaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جانباز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 638
• “cambaz”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu