hegira
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪɹə/
Definition of hegira
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
“By all odds the most remarkable westward migration before the California gold rush of 1849 was the Mormon hegira to the Great Salt Lake basin.”
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noun
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A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
“By all odds the most remarkable westward migration before the California gold rush of 1849 was the Mormon hegira to the Great Salt Lake basin.”
name
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Hijra.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “exodus; emigration”). Doublet of hijra.
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