Hegira Definition

hijīrə; also hejirə
noun
A trip or journey, esp. one made to escape a dangerous or undesirable situation.
Webster's New World
Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 a.d.: the Muslim era dates from this.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

The emigration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE to escape persecution.

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Other Word Forms of Hegira

Noun

Singular:
hegira
Plural:
hegiras

Origin of Hegira

  • From Medieval Latin Hejira, from Arabic هجرة (híjra, “departure, exodus”), referring to Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE; from the verb هجر (hájara, “to emigrate, to abandon”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin from Arabic hijra emigration, flight from hajara to depart hgr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Arabic breaking-off

    From Wiktionary

Hegira Sentence Examples

  • For a thousand years, from the Hegira in 622 to the siege of Vienna in 1683, the peril of a Mahommedan conquest of Europe was almost continually present.

  • Required The Date On Which The Year 1362 Of The Hegira Begins.

  • A passage in Ferishta seems to imply that the Afghans in the Sulimani mountains were already known by that name in the first century of the Hegira, but it is uncertain how far this may be built on.

  • Abu '1 Kasim Mansur (or Hasan), who took the nom de plume of Firdousi, author of the epic poem the Shahnama, or "Book of Kings," a complete history of Persia in nearly 60,000 verses, was born at Shadab, a suburb of Tus, about the year 329 of the Hegira (941 A.D.), or earlier.

  • On the Arab invasion this work was in great danger of perishing at the hands of the iconclastic caliph Omar and his generals, but it was fortunately preserved; and we find it in the 2nd century of the Hegira being paraphrased in Arabic by Abdallah ibn el Mokaffa, a learned Persian who had embraced Islam.

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ARAIRA

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