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hodja

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A Muslim schoolmaster.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: hoxhë — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Arabic: خَوَاجَة (ḵawāja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Azerbaijani: xoca — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Bashkir: хужа (xuja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Belarusian: хаджа́ (xadžá) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Bengali: খাজা (khaja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Bulgarian: ходжа́ (hodžá) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Chinese Mandarin: 获嘉 (huòjiā) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Chuvash: хуҫа (huś̬a) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Chuvash: хоҫа (hoś̬a) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Czech: hodža — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Finnish: opettaja — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • French: hodja — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • German: Hodscha — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Greek: χότζας (chótzas) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Hindi: ख़ोजा (xojā) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Hindi: खोजा (khojā) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Hindi: ख़्वाजा (xvājā) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Hindi: ख्वाजा (khvājā) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Hungarian: hodzsa — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Indonesian: ustaz — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Japanese: ホジャ (hoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Kazakh: қожа (qoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Korean: 호자 (hoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Kyrgyz: кожо (kojo) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Macedonian: хоџа (hodža) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Macedonian: оџа (odža) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Pashto: خواجه (xwājá) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Persian: خْوَاجَه (xwāja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Dari: خَواجَه (xāja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Iranian Persian: خواجِه (xâje) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Polish: hodża — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Polish: chodża — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Portuguese: hodja — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Russian: ходжа́ (xodžá) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Serbo-Croatian: хо̏џа — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Serbo-Croatian: hȍdža — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Slovak: hodža — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Tajik: хӯҷа (xüja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Tajik: хоча (xoča) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Tajik: хоҷа (xoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Tatar: хуҗа (xuca) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Turkish: hoca — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Ottoman Turkish: خواجه (hoca) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Turkmen: hoja — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Ukrainian: ходжа́ (xodžá) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Urdu: خوجَہ (xoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Urdu: خْوَاجَہ (xvāja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Uyghur: خوجا (xoja) — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Uzbek: xoja — a Muslim schoolmaster
  • Uzbek: xoʻja — a Muslim schoolmaster