Sejarah gelar 'Haji' (dalam bahasa Inggris)

Haji is an honorific for a Muslim man who had completed the hajj (obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca). Traditionally, it is an honorific used to address an elder (just like mbah or eyang in the Javanese language). The etymology of this honorific comes from the word hajj, which is a form of past participle of the Arabic verb hajja, which means to perform the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca. An alternative form of the word hajj. which is hajji derives from the word hajj with the suffix -i added. Eventually, the honorific hajji is adopted into languages other than Arabic. In some parts of the world, the honorific is hereditary and it had evolved into a family name, such as Hadžiosmanović, which is a Bosnian surname meaning son/descendant of Haji Usman. A Muslim woman who had completed the hajj is called a hajjah.

In other languages:
  • Arabic: حجّي (Hajjī) 
  • Persian: حاجی (Hāji)
  • Pashto:  حاجی (Hāji)
  • Greek: Χατζής (Khatzis)
  • Albanian: Haxhi
  • Bulgarian: Хаджия (Khadziya)
  • Bosnian: Hadžija
  • Kurdish: Hecî‎ 
  • Serbian: Хаџи (Hadži)  
  • Turkish: Hacı 
  • Hausa: Alhaji
Use:

In the Arab countries, hajji and hajjah are honorifics for someone older, be it for someone who had completed the hajj or someone who had never done so. Someone slightly older would also be addressed hajji or hajjah.

This honorific is also used in countries which were formerly part of the Ottoman Empire where most of the population are Christians (Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Romania) for a Christian who had gone on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and been baptised on the river Jordan.

In Cyprus, which is not very far from Jerusalem, Muslims and Christians had lived peacefully for centuries, thus the honorific had became popular, and it had even been added into Greek family names, such as Hajiloukas and Hajiouannou.

In the Indonesian archipelago, this honorific is used for someone who had completed the hajj, however the honorific aji (which sounds similar), meaning king/ruler, originated from the era of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajji

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