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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The sum which he demanded appeared p. 338exorbitant to the haji, who, forgetting that he was a saint, and fresh from Mecca, fumed outrageously, and in broken Spanish called the boatman thief.
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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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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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Day after day we had watched its brightness from the sea, and many a faithful haji had pointed out to his companions those fires which were Heaven’s witness to the sanctity of the spot.
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