Hodja
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hodja is a noun meaning A Muslim schoolmaster.
Meaning
A Muslim schoolmaster.
Example Sentences
A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.
"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, 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.
Word Forms
- hodjas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hajji, hojatoleslam, hadji, almajiri, hojatolislam, hadjee.
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