قهوه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

قهوه‌جی • (ḳahveci)

  1. a coffeeman or coffeewoman
    1. a coffee-shop-keeper
    2. a coffee-maker in an establishment

Descendants

  • Turkish: kahveci
  • → Albanian: kafexhi
  • → Arabic: قَهْوَجِيّ (qahwajiyy) (dialectal)
  • → Armenian: խախվեճի (xaxveči), կա̈յհվա̈ջի (käyhväǰi), կա̈յհֆա̈ջի (käyhfäǰi)
  • → Bulgarian: кафеджи́я (kafedžíja)
  • → Greek: καφετζής (kafetzís)
  • → Macedonian: кафеџија (kafedžija)
  • → Romanian: cafegiu
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهوه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1502
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎[2], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162
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