mojari

English

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From Sindhi [script needed] (mojari), from Arabic [script needed] (muzaj), from Persian [script needed] (muza).^[1]

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mojari (plural mojaris or mojari)

(South Asia) A type of handmade leather shoe or slipper traditionally worn in northern India and Pakistan.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 11:
  She placed my foot on her knee to remove my mojari.
- 2011, Pat Love, Jon Carlson, Never Be Lonely Again, page 52:
  He walked behind a curtained doorway and returned first with a beautiful turban and a Bollywood-style Indo-Western suit with a matching pair of mojari shoes.