khanji

English

Etymology

From khan +‎ -ji.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːnd͡ʒi/

Noun

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.