ахчия

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آشجی (aşçı), [script needed] (ahçı, “cook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐxˈt͡ʃijɐ]

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• Syllabification^(key): а‧хчи‧я
• Hyphenation^(key): ах‧чия
• Rhymes: -ijɐ

Noun

ахчи́я • (ahčíja) m (archaic or dialectal)

1. cook

   Synonym: готва́ч (gotváč)

2. innkeeper

   Synonyms: съдържа́тел (sǎdǎržátel), гостилнича́р (gostilničár)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• ахчи́йница (ahčíjnica)

 

References

• “ахчия”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014