hoxhë

See also: Hoxhë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja, “lord, master, owner”), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.dʒə/

Noun

hóxhë m

1. imam

   Synonym: imam

Declension

Declension of hoxhë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hoxhë	hoxha	hoxhallarë	hoxhallarët
accusative		hoxhan
dative	hoxha	hoxhat	hoxhallarëve	hoxhallarëve
ablative			hoxhallarësh

Further reading

• “hoxhë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “hoxhë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press