Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flight to escape danger.
- noun The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD, marking the beginning of the Muslim era.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hejira .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, a. d. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.
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- noun A
journey taken toescape fromdanger ; anexodus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
- noun the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year
Etymologies
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While keeping the above definitions in mind---I want to provide some more background--As my previous posts indicated--the muslims of Mecca had been persecuted in Mecca and they eventually fled to Medina--the event is called the hegira and the start Year one of the muslim calender.
Islam in Sunday School James F. McGrath 2009
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Before we embarked on our hegira, I had given niece Felice the assignment of researching Elvis' life and extreme death.
Never Been Down to Lonely Street Gita M. Smith 2011
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Kahlil started in again on his epic, the hegira that had brought him from Lebanon to Egypt and Italy and Spain via the ports and the jails.
September 17 , 2004 Iddhis Bing 2012
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Yet, palpitating and real, shimmering in the sun-flashed dust of ten thousand hoofs, she saw pass, from East to West, across a continent, the great hegira of the land-hungry
CHAPTER VI 2010
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Their good-riddances competed with one tape that played over and over and over for the entire journey, a new album by the Grateful Dead that had become the leitmotif of their hippie hegira.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Their good-riddances competed with one tape that played over and over and over for the entire journey, a new album by the Grateful Dead that had become the leitmotif of their hippie hegira.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Their good-riddances competed with one tape that played over and over and over for the entire journey, a new album by the Grateful Dead that had become the leitmotif of their hippie hegira.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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The childrens 'headlong hegira for the door was immediate except for Speranz, who missed a precious couple of seconds in slow comprehension.
SKENE: CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Maggie Jochild 2007
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The piece tracked the hegira back to the city by sophisticated urbanites who left their McMansions to return to Tribeca (rhymes with "Mecca").
The future of newspapers (cont'd) ... Frank Wilson 2006
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This, to borrow a name from the most memorable instance of outward change marking inward revolution, was the decisive hegira, from which the philosophy of destruction in a formal shape may be held seriously to date.
Voltaire 2007
sera commented on the word hegira
"A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment"
August 13, 2007
seanahan commented on the word hegira
I thought this word would have some similarity to exodus, but this word is from Arabic, which is significantly closer to Hebrew than exodus, which is from Greek.
August 14, 2007
andystardust commented on the word hegira
Joni Mitchell apparently preferred hejira.
March 30, 2009