حلواجی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From حلوا (helva, “halva, confection”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun[edit]
حلواجی • (helvacı)
- confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items
- Synonym: شكرجی (şekerci)
Derived terms[edit]
- حلواجی قباغی (helvacı kabağı, “squash”)
- حلواجی چوغانی (helvacı çoganı, “root of the soapwort”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: helvacı
- → Armenian: հէլվաճի (hēlvači), հալվաջի (halvaǰi), հալվաճի (halvači), ⇒ Հելվաճյան (Helvačyan)
- → Romanian: halvagiu
Further reading[edit]
- 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[1], 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[2], 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[3], Vienna, column 1800
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حلواجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 802