قهوه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قهوه‎ (ḳahve, “coffee”) +‎ ـجی‎ (-ci, “occupational suffix”).

Noun

قهوه‌جی • (ḳahveci)

a coffeeman or coffeewoman
1. a coffee-shop-keeper
2. 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

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