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manji

manji noun: a captain or skipper of a boat.

manji: a captain or skipper of a boat
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Noun (1)

manji (plural manjis)

  1. (British, India) A captain or skipper of a boat.
    • I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […].1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 361

Noun (2)

manji (plural manjis)

  1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.
    • Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152
    • The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy
  2. (Sikhism) A Sikh religious administrative unit.
    • In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155

Noun (3)

manji (plural manjis)

  1. A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.

Proper noun capitalized: Manji

Manji

  1. (archaic) South China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China.
    • Upon crossing this river you enter the noble province of Manji […]1854, Thomas Wright, transl., The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian

manji meaning in Tamil

manji in Tamil

இது ஒரு நாடாகும்

Examples of manji in a sentence

  • There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India, →ISBN:
  • Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers:

Forms of manji

Noun
pluralmanjis
alternative formmangee
alternative formmangie
alternative formmanjee
alternative formmanjie
Proper noun
alternative formMangi

Origin of manji

Borrowed from Hindi माँझी (māñjhī, “boatman, sailor”).

From a form of Punjabi ਮੰਜਾ (mañjā, “raised bed”). The Sikh sense is based on their use as seats of authority.

Transliteration of Japanese 卍 (manji).

Words formed from manji

  • manji sahib

Questions about manji

What does manji mean?
Manji means a captain or skipper of a boat.
What is manji in Tamil?
Manji in Tamil is இது ஒரு நாடாகும். See Manji meaning in Tamil.
How do you use manji in a sentence?
There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!
What part of speech is manji?
Manji can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of manji?
The plural of manji is manjis.

Words near manji in the dictionary

  1. manjees
  2. Manjeri
  3. Manjeshwar
  4. manjha
  5. manjhas
  6. manji
  7. manjie
  8. manjies
  9. Manjimup
  10. Manjira
  11. manjiroite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manji (page history and authors); Manji (page history and authors); Manji (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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