Anagrams of: CHANGAN_

• the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people

• a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl

• a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan

• a coat made of sheepskin

• an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan

• tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to the Near East

• an executioner who hangs the condemned person

• an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

• The call to prayer, which originally consisted of simply four takbirs followed by the statement لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ).

• A staining technique involving azocarmine and aniline dyes.

• the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba