manjis

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
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.

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