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
• → 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^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1502