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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From حلوا (helva, “halva, confection”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
حلواجی • (helvacı)
- confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items
- Synonym: شكرجی (şekerci)
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Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حلوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 666
- 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