قهوهجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
قهوه (ḳahve, “coffee”) + ـجی (-ci, “occupational suffix”).
Noun
قهوهجی • (ḳahveci)
- a coffeeman or coffeewoman
- a coffee-shop-keeper
- a coffee-maker in an establishment
Descendants
- Turkish: kahveci
- → Arabic: قَهْوَجِيّ (qahwajiyy) (dialectal)
- → Armenian: խախվեճի (xaxveči), կա̈յհվա̈ջի (käyhväǰi), կա̈յհֆա̈ջի (käyhfäǰi)
- → Bulgarian: кафеджи́я (kafedžíja)
- → Greek: καφετζής (kafetzís)
- → Macedonian: кафеџија (kafedžija)
- → Romanian: cafegiu
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кафеџија
- Latin: kafedžija
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قهوهجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1502