حلواجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حلوا (helva, “halva, confection”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

حلواجی • (helvacı)

  1. confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items
    Synonym: شكرجی (şekerci)

Derived terms
  • حلواجی قباغی (helvacı kabağı, “squash”)
  • حلواجی چوغانی (helvacı çoganı, “root of the soapwort”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: helvacı
  • → Armenian: հէլվաճի (hēlvači), հալվաջի (halvaǰi), հալվաճի (halvači), ⇒ Հելվաճյան (Helvačyan)
  • → Romanian: halvagiu

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “helvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حلواجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 517
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dulciarius pistor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 436
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حلواجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1800
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حلواجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 802
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