"poojah" meaning in English

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      "form": "poojahs",
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      "expansion": "poojah (countable and uncountable, plural poojahs)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "pooja"
        }
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          "ref": "1840, Sir William Henry Sleeman, Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India: From the Cold Season of 1836-37, Down to Their Gradual Suppression, Under the Operation of the Measures Adopted Against Them by the Supreme Government, in the Year 1839, Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, →OCLC, page 42",
          "text": "No other person but the Chaur is allowed to touch them; and while the poojah (religious ceremony) is going on all must keep themselves pure […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers: Volume 65, page 67",
          "text": "Laſt is the Gunta-Poojah, which is plaiſtering the bell with ſandal wood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of pooja."
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      "id": "en-poojah-en-noun-A7ZoQ0Yb",
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          "pooja#English"
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  "word": "poojah"
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    {
      "form": "poojahs",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "poojah (countable and uncountable, plural poojahs)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "pooja"
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        "English uncountable nouns"
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          "ref": "1840, Sir William Henry Sleeman, Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India: From the Cold Season of 1836-37, Down to Their Gradual Suppression, Under the Operation of the Measures Adopted Against Them by the Supreme Government, in the Year 1839, Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, →OCLC, page 42",
          "text": "No other person but the Chaur is allowed to touch them; and while the poojah (religious ceremony) is going on all must keep themselves pure […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers: Volume 65, page 67",
          "text": "Laſt is the Gunta-Poojah, which is plaiſtering the bell with ſandal wood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of pooja."
      ],
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          "pooja",
          "pooja#English"
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  "word": "poojah"
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