hajji

English

Alternative forms

Hajji, hadji, Hadji, haji, Haji

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French hagi, from Ottoman Turkish حاجی (hacı), from Classical Persian (hājī). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Middle French etymon”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæ.dʒi/, /ˈhɑː.dʒi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæ.dʒi/, /ˈhɑ.dʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ædʒi, -hɑdʒi

Noun

hajji (plural hajjis)

(Islam) An honorific given to a Muslim who has participated in a hajj.
(derogatory, slang, US, ethnic slur) Any Muslim or Arab.

Translations

one who has participated in a hajj

Albanian: haxhi (sq) m
Arabic: حَاجّ m (ḥājj), حَاجَّة f (ḥājja)
Avar: хӏажи (ḥʳaži)
Azerbaijani: hacı
Baluchi: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: хажи (xaji)
Belarusian: хаджы m (xadžy), хаджа f (xadža)
Bengali: হাজি (bn) (haji)
Bulgarian: хаджия (bg) (hadžija)
Chechen: хьаьжа (ḥʳäža)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哈只 (hāzhǐ), (Malaysia, Singapore) 哈芝 (hāzhī)
Crimean Tatar: acı
Dutch: hadji (nl) m, Mekkaganger
Finnish: hadži (fi)
French: hadji (fr) m
Fula: please add this translation if you can
Greek: Χατζής (el) m (Chatzís), Χάτζι (el) m (Chátzi)
Hausa: alhaji
Hindi: हज्जी (hajjī), हजी (hajī), हाजी (hi) m (hājī)
Indonesian: haji (id)
Ingush: хьажо (ḥʳažo)
Japanese: ハッジ (ja) (hajji)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Karakalpak: ҳажы
Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: қажы (qajy)
Kumyk: гьажи (haji)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hecî (ku)
Kyrgyz: ажы (ky) (ajı)
Lezgi: гьажи (haži)
Macedonian: хаџија m (hadžija)
Malay: haji (ms)
Nogai: аьжи (äji)
Pashto: حاجی (hāji)
Persian: حاجی (fa) (hâji), حاج (fa) (hâj)
Portuguese: hadji (pt) m
Punjabi: ਹਾਜੀ (hājī)
Russian: хаджи́ (ru) m (xadží)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хаџија m, хаџи m (Serbia)

Latin: hadžija (sh) m
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
Swahili: alhaji, haji
Tajik: ҳоҷӣ (hoji)
Tatar: хаҗи (tt) (xaci)
Thai: ฮัจญี (th) (hát-yii), หัจญี (th), หะยี (th)
Tuareg: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: hacı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: حاجی (hacı)
Turkmen: hajy
Ukrainian: хаджі m (xadži)
Urdu: حاجی m (hājī)
Uyghur: ھاجى (haji)
Uzbek: hoji (uz)
Yoruba: alájì

Hausa

Alternative forms

haji

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /há(d)ʒ.(d)ʒì/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [hád.d͡ʒɪ̀]
IPA^(key): /ʔàl.há.(d)ʒí/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔàl.há.d͡ʒɪ́]
Audio (Nigeria): (file)

Noun

hajjì m (possessed form hajjìn)

(Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)