khanji

plural khanjis

1. An innkeeper, a proprietor of a khan or caravansarai.

   There is a certain foppery about the khanjhi of a first-rate Caravanserai […]

   1838, Julia Pardoe, The Beauties of the Bosphorus

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   I quietly asked the landlord: "Khanjee, where along this coast did the great fish discharge the prophet Jonah?"

   1879, Robert Morris, Freemasonry in the Holy Land: A Narrative of Masonic Explorations Made in 1868, in the Land of King Solomon and the Two Hirams

   Instead the particular muzari agreed to take his crops to be sold in the khan of his khanji.

   1991, Richard T. Antoun, Donald Quataert, Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity