Khazi vs Ghazi - What's the difference?
khazi | ghazi |
A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title.
*1887 , (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), A Study in Scarlet , I:
*:I should have falled into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 351:
*:Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis , began to hurl themselves against the British positions.
* 2001 , (Orhan Pamuk), My Name Is Red , tr. Erda? M Göknar:
As nouns the difference between khazi and ghazi
is that khazi is a toilet while ghazi is a hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title.khazi
English
Alternative forms
* carsey, carsy, karsey, karsy, karzey, karzy, kaziUsage notes
Particularly used in "down the khazi ". Khazi is now most commonly used in Liverpool, away from its cockney slang roots."Why Do We Say?" (1987) by (Nigel Rees)See also
* down the drain * down the tubes * go down the toiletghazi
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Noun
(en noun)- On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.