manji

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim South China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China.

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

2. isim A captain or skipper of a boat.

   “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 […].”

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

   “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.”

4. isim A 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.”

5. isim A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.