حاجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَاجِي (ḥājī), from حَاجّ (ḥājj, “person who has performed the pilgrimage to Mecca”).

Noun

حاجی • (hacı) (definite accusative حاجیی (hacıyı), plural حاجیلر (hacılar) or حجاج (hüccâc))

1. pilgrim, one who travels, especially on a journey and on foot, to visit sites of religious significance or a holy place

   Synonym: سیاح (seyyah)

2. (Islam) hajji, a Muslim who has participated to the annual pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the Five Pillars
3. (Christianity) palmer, a pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification

Derived terms

• حاجی اوتی (hacı otu, “mandrake”)
• حاجی بكتاش (hacı bektaş, “Hacıbektaş, a district in Turkey”)
• حاجی ترخان (hacı tarhan, “Astrakhan, a city in Russia”)
• حاجی خانم (hacı hanım, “lady who has been on a pilgrimage to Mecca”)
• حاجی عوض (hacı ʼivâz, “Hacivat, a character of the Turkish shadow play”)
• حاجی قادین (hacı kadın, “name of a mosque in Istanbul”)
• حاجی نشانی (hacı nişanı, “tattoo worn by pilgrims to Mecca”)
• حاجی یاتماز (hacı yatmaz, “roly-poly, tumbler”)
• حاجیلر بیرامی (hacılar bayramı, “Muslim celebration for the pilgrims”)
• حاجیلر یولی (hacılar yolu, “Milky Way”, literally “pilgrims way”)
• حاجیلق (hacılık, “pilgrimage”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hacı
• → Albanian: haxhi
• → Middle Armenian: հաճի (hači)
  • Armenian: հաճի (hači), հա̈ջի (häǰi)
• → Russian: ханжа (xanža)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 633
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1827
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hâcı”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 365
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 491
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Peregrinatus Meccam”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1271
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حاجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1703
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hacı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 750

Persian

Etymology

From حَاج (hâj) +‎ ـی (-i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [hɑː.ˈd͡ʒiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hɑː.d͡ʒíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hɑː.d͡ʒíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.d͡ʒíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.d͡ʒí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hɒː.d͡ʒíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hɔ.d͡ʒí]

Readings
Classical reading?	hājī
Dari reading?	hājī
Iranian reading?	hâji
Tajik reading?	hoji

Noun

حاجی • (hâji) (plural حاجیان (hâjiân) or حاجی‌ها (hâji-hâ) or حجّاج (hojjâj))

1. (Islam) a hajji, one who has participated in a hajj.
2. (figurative) used to address an elderly, usually pious-looking men. Also used as a title.
3. (colloquial, in the vocative) dude or mate. Chiefly used to address a young, male, friend.

   حاجی امتحان خیلی سخت بود! اصن پشمام ریخته!

   hâji emtehân xeyli saxt bud! asan pašmâm rixte!

   Dude, the exam was crazily difficult! I was like, freaked out!

Derived terms

• حاجی فیروز (hâji-firuz)
• حاجی‌ بازاری (hâji-bâzâri)
• حاجی ارزانی (hâji-arzâni), حاجی ارزونی (hâji-arzuni)
• حاجی بابا (hâji-bâbâ)
• حاجی دایی (hâji-dâyi)
• حاجی واشنگتن (hâji-vâšangton)
• حاجی لَک‌لَک (hâji-lak-lak)

Related terms

• حج (haj)
• حاج (hâj)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حاجی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press