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hodjas

hodjas is the plural of hodja.

Meaning of hodja

Noun

hodja (plural hodjas)

  1. A Muslim schoolmaster.
    • 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.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...

Questions about hodjas

What is hodjas the plural of?
Hodjas is the plural of hodja.

Words near hodjas in the dictionary

  1. hodiernal
  2. hodiernal tense
  3. hodiernal tenses
  4. hodiernally
  5. hodja
  6. hodjas
  7. Hodkin
  8. Hodkinson
  9. hodl
  10. hodled
  11. hodler

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