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khanji en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑːnd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From khan + -ji.

Meanings

1. An innkeeper, a proprietor of a khan or caravansarai.
   • There is a certain foppery about the khanjhi of a first-rate Caravanserai […] 1838, Julia Pardoe, The Beauties of the Bosphorus:
   • Instead the particular muzari agreed to take his crops to be sold in the khan of his khanji. 1991, Richard T. Antoun, Donald Quataert, Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity:
   • I quietly asked the landlord: "Khanjee, where along this coast did the great fish discharge the prophet Jonah?" 1879, Robert Morris, Freemasonry in the Holy Land: A Narrative of Masonic Explorations Made in 1868, in the Land of King Solomon and the Two Hirams:

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