helvacı
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حلواجی (helvacı, “confectioner”), equivalent to helva (“halva, confection”) + -cı.
Noun[edit]
helvacı (definite accusative helvacıyı, plural helvacılar)
- maker or seller of halva, a traditional Middle Eastern confection
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Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “helvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928