قهوه‌جی

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word قهوه‌جی. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word قهوه‌جی, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say قهوه‌جی in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word قهوه‌جی you have here. The definition of the word قهوه‌جی will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofقهوه‌جی, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

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
→ 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:
- Cyrillic script: кафеџија
- Latin script: kafedžija

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهوه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, 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, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162

Wikious

Boobota

Sagapedia