haji

Example Sentences

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For 13 centuries, pious Moslems have done so, and thereafter been honored as haji.

From Time Magazine Archive

I put my clothes on and came into the waiting area where Esther, Leslie, and Al- haji sat.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

Dried shallots and pashmak and haji badum, which are these little baked almond candies, and a new tablecloth.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Then an old wizened fellow, a haji from his green turban showing he had seen Mecca, came up and they conversed.

From In Mesopotamia by Nicoll, Maurice

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. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry