Hajji

  

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Hajji

Definition: Hajji

Hajji

Noun

1. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hajji" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)

Synonyms: Hajji

Synonyms: hadji (n), haji (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Hajji

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

Hajji Washington (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hajji

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hajji Firuz Tepe, Iran: The Neolithic Settlement (reference)

  • Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker (reference)

  • Oriental Rugs of the Hajji Babas (reference)

  • Ottoman and Persian Odysseys: James Morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and His Brothers (reference)

  • The Adventure of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hajji

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bahrain

In June 2001 the local/Belgian joint venture of Six Construct Hajji Hassan received a letter of intent for the Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Causeway contract. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

On February 12, security personnel believed to be from the DMI reportedly kidnaped, took to a military facility, and beat Hajji Ramathan Muwonge, a campaign manager of Besigye, and his two sons; they were released 24 hours later. (references)

Uganda

On June 8, security personnel believed to be from the DMI arrested Hajji Muhammad Kimbugwe of Nakulabye, a Kampala suburb, detained him at DMI headquarters, and later transferred him to the Central Police Station (CPS). On June 20, he reportedly wrote to the DMI chief, asked him to intervene, and accused the DMI of having arrested him three times without charging him; he still was in detention at year's end. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hajji

"Hajji" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hajji" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hajji

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hajji

7

hajji said

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hajji

Language Translations for "hajji"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حاج (pilgrim), ‏الحاج المسعف (palmer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ajjihay.(various references)

   

Thai

  

มุสลิมที่ไ"้ไปแสวงบุญที่กรุงเมกกะ (hadji, haji). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hajji

Derivations

Words beginning with "hajji": hajjis. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hajji" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baqjaji, bhaji, Bhanji, Hadji, haja, haje, Hajij, hajo, haju, hajy, Hanjin, Harjit, Harjo, hijab, hijj, hoja, Hoxja, Jaji, Khadjia, Lawji, naji, Shamji, tajjal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hajji

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-j-j"

-1 letter: haji, hajj.

-2 letters: haj.

-3 letters: ah, ai, ha, hi.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-j-j"
 

+1 letter: hajjis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hajji


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6A 6A 69

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101010 01101010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#106 &#106 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006A 006A 0069

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267767675

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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