# 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))
* pilgrim, one who travels, especially on a journey and on foot, to visit sites of religious significance or a holy place
    Synonym: سیاح (seyyah)
* (Islam) hajji, a Muslim who has participated to the annual pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the Five Pillars
* (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 (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 365
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 1703
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hacı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 750

## Persian
### Etymology

From حَاج (hâj) +‎ ـی (-i).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [hɑː.ˈd͡ʒiː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hɑː.d͡ʒíː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hɑː.d͡ʒíː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɑː.d͡ʒíː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔɔː.d͡ʒí]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hɒː.d͡ʒíː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hɔ.d͡ʒí]

### Noun

حاجی • (hâji) (plural حاجیان (hâjiân) or حاجی‌ها (hâji-hâ) or حجّاج (hojjâj))
* (Islam) a hajji, one who has participated in a hajj.
* (figurative) used to address an elderly, usually pious-looking men. Also used as a title.
* (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