حلواجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حلوا (helva, “halva, confection”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

حلواجی • (helvacı)

1. confectioner, a maker or seller of confections and other sweet food items

   Synonym: شكرجی (şekerci)

Derived terms

• حلواجی قباغی (helvacı kabağı, “winter squash”)
• حلواجی چوغانی (helvacı çoganı, “root of the soapwort”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: helvacı
• → Albanian: hallvaxhi
• → Armenian: հէլվաճի (hēlvači), հալվաջի (halvaǰi), հալվաճի (halvači), ⇒ Հելվաճյան (Helvačyan)
• → Romanian: halvagiu

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حلوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 666
• 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