hodja

opettaja 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, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Up6V6UFMCqAC&pg=PA315&dq=%22hodja%22%7C%22hodjas%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HqcqUo-lBMOKlQWDoICYAw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22hodja%22%7C%22hodjas%22&f=false 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.

A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.

"I hate all priests, rabbis, and hodjas," he once told me — hodja being the nearest equivalent the Mohammedans have for a minister of religion.