Hoca
Hoca, also rendered into English as hodja, is a Turkish word deriving from the Persian word خواجه Khawaja, khâjeh, used as a title, given name or surname.
As a honorific title, 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, Ottoman spiritualist
- Adnan Hoca, Turkish cult leader and Muslim televangelist
- İskilipli Âtıf Hoca, Turkish Islamic scholar
- Hoca Ali Rıza, Turkish painter
- Hoca Çelebi or Ebussuud Efendi, Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete
- Hoca Ishak Efendi, Ottoman engineer and mathematician
- Hoca Kadri Efendi, Ottoman journalist and political figure
- Hoca Niyaz or Hoja-Niyaz, Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang
- Hoca Sadüddin Efendi, 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, Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher
- Nasreddin Hoca or Nasreddin, Seljuq satirical Sufi figure
- Fatahillah or Hoca Hassan, Malay commander in the Malacca and Demak sultanates