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manji en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi माँझी (māñjhī, “boatman, sailor”).

Meanings

1. (British, India) A captain or skipper of a boat.
   • I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […]. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 361:

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manji en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From a form of Punjabi ਮੰਜਾ (mañjā, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.

Meanings

1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
   • The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground. 2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy:
   • There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal! 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India, →ISBN:
   • Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji. 1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152:
   • Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep. 2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:
2. (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
   • In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis. 1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155:

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Deriveds

Manji Sahib · manji sahib

manji en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Transliteration of Japanese 卍 (manji).

Meanings

1. A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.

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