haji
Americannoun
plural
hajisExample Sentences
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We even bundled up Al- haji’s old shirt and tied a rope around it to make a soccer ball.
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He would have told me much more, but the haji called him away, and otherwise employed him, probably to prevent his being contaminated by me.
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Then an old wizened fellow, a haji from his green turban showing he had seen Mecca, came up and they conversed.
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Say from me to that haji, or pilgrim, the pest of his fellow-pilgrims, that he lacerates the skin of mankind by his contention.
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The latter part of their name, aji , or rather aspirated haji , signifies a pilgrim, and is now the appropriate title of one who has made the great pilgrimage of Mecca.
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