hodja

See also: Hodja

English

Alternative forms

• khoja

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (modern Turkish hoca), from Persian خواجه (xâje). Doublet of howadji, Khoja, and Hoxha.

Noun

hodja (plural hodjas)

1. 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.

   • 1926, Halide Edib, House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New, Facsimile edition, published 2005, page 88:

     A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.

   • 2007, Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide, page 14:

     "I hate all priests, rabbis, and hodjas," he once told me — hodja being the nearest equivalent the Mohammedans have for a minister of religion.

Translations

a Muslim schoolmaster

• Albanian: hoxhë (sq) m
• Arabic: خَوَاجَة m (ḵawāja)
• Azerbaijani: xoca
• Bashkir: хужа (xuja)
• Belarusian: хаджа́ m (xadžá)
• Bengali: খাজা (bn) (khaja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 获嘉 (zh) (huòjiā)

• Chuvash: хуҫа (huś̬a), хоҫа (hoś̬a)
• Czech: hodža m
• Finnish: opettaja (fi)
• French: hodja (fr) m
• German: Hodscha m
• Greek: χότζας (el) m (chótzas)
• Hindi: ख़ोजा m (xojā), खोजा (hi) m (khojā)
• Hungarian: hodzsa (hu)
• Japanese: ホジャ (hoja)
• Kazakh: қожа (qoja)
• Korean: 호자 (hoja)
• Kyrgyz: кожо (kojo)
• Macedonian: хоџа m (hodža)
• Ottoman Turkish: خواجه (hoca)
• Persian: خواجه (fa) (xâje)
• Polish: hodża m, chodża m
• Portuguese: hodja m
• Russian: ходжа́ (ru) m (xodžá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̏џа m

  Roman: hȍdža (sh) m

• Slovak: hodža m
• Tajik: хӯҷа (xüja), хоча (xoča), хоҷа (xoja)
• Tatar: хуҗа (tt) (xuca)
• Turkish: hoca (tr)
• Turkmen: hoja
• Ukrainian: ходжа́ m (xodžá)
• Urdu: خوجہ m (xojā)
• Uyghur: خوجا (xoja)
• Uzbek: xoja (uz), xoʻja (uz)

Anagrams

• johad

Portuguese

Noun

hodja m (plural hodjas)

1. (Islam) hodja (a Muslim schoolmaster)