helvacı

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حلواجی (helvacı, “confectioner”), equivalent to helva (“halva, confection”) +‎ -cı. === Noun === helvacı (definite accusative helvacıyı, plural helvacılar) maker or seller of halva, a traditional Middle Eastern confection ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “helvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928