Hegira
Islam. a variant spelling of Hijra.
(lowercase)Also he·ji·ra . any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place.
Origin of Hegira
1Words Nearby Hegira
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How to use Hegira in a sentence
One has no recollection of things that happened before the Hegira.
The Secret Witness | George GibbsThe snow-drifts were still deep on the hills when, in the first days of March, we commenced our Hegira to the far West.
Mary and I | Stephen Return RiggsThe explanation of course was, that he had been brought as an infant on this famous Hegira of the Selkirk Colonists.
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists | George BryceThen came the Hegira, which ended, as all the world knows, at Philadelphia.
Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) | Wiliam Cabell BruceWith this view, and under the modest title of the station of a caravan, he planted this colony in the fiftieth year of the Hegira.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon
British Dictionary definitions for Hegira
Hejira
/ (ˈhɛdʒɪrə) /
the departure of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina in 622 ad; the starting point of the Muslim era
the Muslim era itself: See also AH
(often not capital) an emigration escape or flight
Origin of Hegira
1- Also called: Hijrah
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