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Etymology

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From khan +‎ -ji.

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Noun

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khanji (plural khanjis)

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