hodja
See also: Hodja
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (modern Turkish hoca), from Persian خواجه (xâje). Doublet of howadji, Khoja, and Hoxha.
Noun
[edit]hodja (plural hodjas)
- A Muslim schoolmaster.
- 1916, unnamed narrator, quoted in 2008, Viscount Bryce (editor), The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Viscount Bryce, page 315,
- The next night I heard two hodjas talking, under my window, of a terrible massacre of the Armenians that had just taken place in the mountains; they seemed to be very sorry about it and spoke of it with horror; they did not know, of course, that I was listening.
- 1926, Halide Edib, House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New, Facsimile edition, published 2005, page 88:
- A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.
- 2007, Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide, page 14:
- "I hate all priests, rabbis, and hodjas," he once told me — hodja being the nearest equivalent the Mohammedans have for a minister of religion.
- 1916, unnamed narrator, quoted in 2008, Viscount Bryce (editor), The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Viscount Bryce, page 315,
Translations
[edit]a Muslim schoolmaster
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Anagrams
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hodja m (plural hodjas)
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