Re: USAGE: XH etc. (was: RE: RV: Old English)

In a message dated 3/31/2000 6:10:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, bpj@NETG.SE
writes:
(I wrote:
<< >     IINM, "hoja" is probably < Arabic.  In Indonesian, a "hoja" is sort
of
 >the care-taker of a mosque; originally probably a more lofty meaning.)

 _hajji_, someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mekka. >>

Possibly they reflect the same root (? hj ?), but surely two different
vocalizations?
Come to think of it, _hoja_  (and in _hojatulislam_) might mean guardian?
Sorry-- my Arabic vocabulary is limited to loanwords in Spanish and
Indonesian.