English Explanatory Dictionary

Khoja

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Gujarati
noun
  1. A member of a Gujarati-speaking Shiite sect who take the Aga Khan as their religious head.

Word forms

Khoja Khojas

Etymology

Borrowed from Gujarati ખોજા (khojā), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Doublet of Ojha, hodja, Hoxha, and Upadhyaya.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on K Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary