{{wiktionary|hoca|hodja}} '''{{lang|tr|Hoca}}''' ({{IPA|tr|hoˈdʒa|pron}}), also rendered into English as ''hodja'', is a Turkish word deriving from the Persian word {{lang|fa|خواجه}} {{lang|fa-Latn|khwāja}}, {{lang|fa-Latn|khâjeh}}, used as a title, given name or surname.
As a honorific title, {{lang|tr|hoca}} means “master” and is commonly used for teachers, professors, leaders, and in general, wise people. It is also used as a slang word between friends.
It may refer to:
*Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha, 18th-century Ottoman admiral *Cinci Hoca (died 1648), Ottoman spiritualist *Adnan Hoca (born 1956), Turkish cult leader and Muslim televangelist *İskilipli Âtıf Hoca (1875–1926), Turkish Islamic scholar *Hoca Ali Rıza (1858–1939), Turkish painter *Hoca Çelebi or Ebussuud Efendi (1490–1574), Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete *Hoca Ishak Efendi (1774–1835), Ottoman engineer and mathematician *Hoca Kadri Efendi (1855–1918), Ottoman journalist and political figure *Hoca Niyaz or Hoja-Niyaz, Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang *Hoca Sadüddin Efendi (1536–1599), Ottoman scholar, official, historian, a teacher of Ottoman sultan Murad III *Hoca Sefer, captain, who was in charge of pro-Ottoman forces in Gujarat in the first half of the 15th century *Hoca Tahsin Efendi (1811–1881), Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher *Nasreddin Hoca or Nasreddin, Seljuq satirical Sufi figure (around 13th century) *Fatahillah or Hoca Hassan, Malay commander in the Malacca and Demak sultanates
==See also== *Hoxha (surname), Albanian surname of the same origin *Hoçë e Vogël, village in Kosovo *Velika Hoča, village in Kosovo
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