قهوجي

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‌جی‎ (ḳahveci).

Noun

قَهْوَجِيّ • (qahwajiyy) m (dialectal)

  1. coffeeman
    1. the owner of a coffeehouse
    2. a person who makes coffee in an establishment, a coffee-maker, a coffee cook

Further reading
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “قهوجي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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