hodja

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hodja

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (modern Turkish hoca), from Classical Persian خْوَاجَه (xwāja), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Doublet of howadji, Khoja, Hoxha, and Osho.

noun hodjas · khoja

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 t

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noun a Muslim schoolmaster

한국어	호자 hoja
日本語	ホジャ hoja
中文	获嘉 huòjiā
हिन्दी	ख़ोजा xojā, खोजा khojā, ख़्वाजा xvājā, ख्वाजा khvājā
Português	hodja
Français	hodja
Deutsch	Hodscha
Ελληνικά	χότζας chótzas
Русский	ходжа́ xodžá
العربية	خَوَاجَة ḵawāja

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@misc{hodja_2026,
  title = {hodja},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hodja},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}