khanji

khanji

En

Etymology

khan +‎ -ji

Noun

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."