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Howja vs Hodja - What's the difference?

howja | hodja |

As a contraction howja

is eye dialect of how d'you.

As a noun hodja is

a Muslim schoolmaster.

howja

English

Contraction

(en-cont)
  • * 1920 June 19, , page 14:
    • “Selby.” ¶ “Howja spell it?” ¶ “S-e-l-b-y.”
  • * 1972 , , After the Ball , 2nd Limelight Edition (1994), ISBN 0-87910-063-X, pages 112–113:
    • ‘Howja' do! '''Howja''' do! ' Howja do! Hellooooo everybardy!…’
  • * 2010 , Charisse Goodman, The Starved Senses , Dog Ear Publishing, ISBN 978-160844-586-8, page 257:
    • “Howja' do that?” she mumbled thickly. “' Howja make firecrackers sound just like guns indoors?” Boy, they sure got some smart guys there, she thought.

    hodja

    English

    Alternative forms

    * khoja

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Muslim schoolmaster.
  • * 1916 , unnamed narrator, quoted in 2008, Viscount Bryce (editor), The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Viscount Bryce , page 315,
    • The next night I heard two hodjas talking, under my window, of a terrible massacre of the Armenians that had just taken place in the mountains; they seemed to be very sorry about it and spoke of it with horror; they did not know, of course, that I was listening.
  • * 1926 , Halide Edib, House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New , 2005 Facsimile Edition, page 88,
    • A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.
  • * 2007 , Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide , page 14,
    • "I hate all priests, rabbis, and hodjas'," he once told me — ' hodja being the nearest equivalent the Mohammedans have for a minister of religion.