hodja

== English == === Alternative forms === khoja === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === === Noun === 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. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === johad == Portuguese == === Noun === hodja m (plural hodjas) (Islam) hodja (a Muslim schoolmaster)