# Hoca

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'''{{lang|tr|Hoca}}''' ({{IPA|tr|hoˈdʒa|pron}}), also rendered into English as ''hodja'', is a [Turkish](/source/Turkish_language) word deriving from the [Persian](/source/Persian_language) word {{lang|fa|خواجه}} {{lang|fa-Latn|[khwāja](/source/Khawaja)}}, {{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](/source/Can%C4%B1m_Hoca_Mehmed_Pasha), 18th-century Ottoman admiral
*[Cinci Hoca](/source/Cinci_Hoca) (died 1648), Ottoman spiritualist
*[Adnan Hoca](/source/Adnan_Hoca) (born 1956), Turkish cult leader and Muslim televangelist
*[İskilipli Âtıf Hoca](/source/%C4%B0skilipli_%C3%82t%C4%B1f_Hodja) (1875–1926), Turkish Islamic scholar
*[Hoca Ali Rıza](/source/Hoca_Ali_R%C4%B1za) (1858–1939), Turkish painter
*[Hoca Çelebi](/source/Ebussuud_Effendi) or Ebussuud Efendi (1490–1574), Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete
*[Hoca Ishak Efendi](/source/Hoca_Ishak_Efendi) (1774–1835), Ottoman engineer and mathematician
*[Hoca Kadri Efendi](/source/Hoca_Kadri_Efendi) (1855–1918), Ottoman journalist and political figure
*[Hoca Niyaz](/source/Hoja-Niyaz) or Hoja-Niyaz, Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang
*[Hoca Sadüddin Efendi](/source/Sadeddin_Effendi) (1536–1599), Ottoman scholar, official, historian, a teacher of Ottoman sultan Murad III
*[Hoca Sefer](/source/Hodja_Sefer), captain, who was in charge of pro-Ottoman forces in Gujarat in the first half of the 15th century
*[Hoca Tahsin Efendi](/source/Hoca_Tahsin_Efendi) (1811–1881), Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher
*[Nasreddin Hoca](/source/Nasreddin_Hoca) or Nasreddin, Seljuq satirical Sufi figure (around 13th century)
*[Fatahillah](/source/Fatahillah) or Hoca Hassan, Malay commander in the Malacca and Demak sultanates

==See also==
*[Hoxha (surname)](/source/Hoxha_(surname)), Albanian surname of the same origin
*[Hoçë e Vogël](/source/Ho%C3%A7%C3%AB_e_Vog%C3%ABl), village in Kosovo
*[Velika Hoča](/source/Velika_Ho%C4%8Da), village in Kosovo

{{given name}}

Category:Turkish-language surnames
Category:Turkish masculine given names
Category:Masculine given names

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