manji

plural manjis · alternative mangee · alternative mangie · alternative manjee · alternative manjie

1. BritishIndiaA captain or skipper of a boat.First known use 17th–19th c.

   I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […].

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 361

plural manjis

1. A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.

   The significance of a manji lies in its use as the seat of a person in authority, other people sitting on the ground.

   2005, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy

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   Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.

   1990, W. H. McLeod, Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism, page 152

   There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!

   2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India, →ISBN

   Roop doesn't want to sleep on a mat on the floor; she wants to sleep with Lajo Bhua on a manji, wants Lajo Bhua to tell her stories till she falls asleep.

   2015, Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers

2. SikhismA Sikh religious administrative unit.

   In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.

   1993, Sunita Puri, Advent of Sikh Religion: A Socio-political Perspective, page 155

plural manjis

1. BuddhismA left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.

alternative Mangi

1. archaicSouth China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China.

   Upon crossing this river you enter the noble province of Manji […]

   1854, Thomas Wright, transl., The Travels of Marco Polo: The Venetian