hoca
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Persian خواجه (xâje/xwâja).
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hoca (definite accusative hocayı, plural hocalar)
Usage notes
- This term is usually not used to refer to one's profession. öğretmen or profesör are used instead.
- This term is almost always used in lieu of öğretmen or profesör when used by school children past elementary school and university students.
Declension
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Nominative | hoca | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | hocayı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | hoca | hocalar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | hocayı | hocaları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | hocaya | hocalara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | hocada | hocalarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | hocadan | hocalardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | hocanın | hocaların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: hodja
- → French: hodja
- → German: Hodscha
- → Serbo-Croatian: Hodža
- → Portuguese: hodja
- → Ubykh: [Term?] (/χʷɜ́ɖ͡ʐɜ/)
Further reading
- hoca in Reverso (Turkish-English)