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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

hoca.

master

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun[hoˈd͡ʒɑ]

  1. master

  2. professor

  3. teacher

  4. hodja

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Cognate with Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”), Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”).

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