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Definition of Hajji
1. Noun. A general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people. "To American soldiers, the hajji are the alien people from whom the enemy emerges"
2. Noun. An Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Definition of Hajji
1. Noun. One who has participated in a hajj. ¹
2. Noun. (pejorative slang US ethnic slur) A Muslim or Arab. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hajji
1. hadji [n -S] - See also: hadji
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hajji
| haith haiti haitic haiweeite haj hajduk hajduks hajes haji hajib | hajis hajj hajjah hajjahs hajjes hajji (current term) hajjis haka hakam hakama | hakams hakapik hakapiks hakas hake haked hakeem hakeems hakelike hakes |
Literary usage of Hajji
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"But there is a great difference between the 'Arabian Nights' and 'hajji Baba.
... hajji AS A QUACK From 'The Adventures of hajji Baba' AT LENGTH one morning ..."
2. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"hajji Murad and his retinue then received passage on two ... In any event hajji
Murad was conveyed with all honor to Narbonne and thence to Toulouse, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On the eve of the general elections (March 1912) the Turkish government sent a
special commission headed by the Minister of the Interior, hajji Adil Bey, ..."
4. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan by James Brooke, George Rodney Mundy (1848)
"GRAND MARKET. — NATIVE COMMODITIES. BARTER. NEWS OF hajji SAMAN. ... PREPARATIONS
FOR AN EXPEDITION AGAINST hajji SAMAN.—FLEET OF NATIVE AUXILIARIES. ..."
5. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... with a Journal of the Voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian
Gulf " (1818), " The Adventures of hajji Baba of Ispahan " (5 vols., 1824-1828), ..."
6. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"(From "The Adventures of hajji Baba.") [JAMES MORIER : An English traveler and
author; born in England in 1780; died at Brighton, March 23, 1849. ..."
7. Grammar of the Fulde Language: With an Appendix of Some Original Traditions by Charles Augustus Ludwig Reichardt (1876)
"Al hajji presented Jimba horses and money. Al hajji made a farm for himself ...
After some time Jimba, the king of Tamba sent his people to Al hajji Omaru. ..."
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