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hegira

[hi-jahy-ruh, hej-er-uh] / hɪˈdʒaɪ rə, ˈhɛdʒ ər ə /






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My own Hegira is a two-block schlep to a neighborhood bagel place, so I’m not the ideal audience for this heady Kerouacian stuff.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021

The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.

From Time Magazine Archive

This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hegira, Hejira, hej′i-ra, n. the flight of Mohammed from Mecca, 15th July 622 A.D., from which is dated the Mohammedan era: any flight.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various