hodja

Definitions

A Muslim schoolmaster.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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