Hegira

Definition: Hegira

Hegira

Noun

1. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.

Date "hegira" was first used: 1753. (references)

Note: Hegira \He*gi"ra\, noun. [Written also hejira.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Hegira The epoch of the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, when he was expelled by the magistrates, July 16th, 622. Mahometans date from this event. (Arabic, hejira, departure.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Hegira

Synonyms: exodus (n), hejira (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hegira

English words defined with "hegira": Hijra ♦ Mohammedan calendar, Moslem calendar, Muhammadan calendar, Muslim calendar ♦ Retreatment. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hegira": Kufic Coins. (references)

Etymologies containing "hegira": Retreatment. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Hegira (reference) (more book examples)
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Language		Translations for "hegira"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		hégire (hejira). (various references)

Greek		φυγή (flight, rout, scuttle), εγείρα. (various references)

Italian		egira (hejira). (various references)

Pig Latin		egirahay

Thai		การหลบหนีของโมฮัมหมั�"จากเมืองเมกกะไปยังเม�"ินา (Hejira), ฮิจเราะห์ศักราช. (various references)

Turkish		hicret (emigration, hejira, migration, transmigration). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	hijrah. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "hegira": hegiras. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hegira" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hagara, Hageray, Havira, Hediard, hegi, hegria, Hegyi, Khediri, Megaira, megera, Sheigra, Zegarra. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "hegira" (pronounced 'He*gi"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dulcamara, Dura, Durra, Endopleura, Epeira, ERA, Eudipleura, Euthyneura, Exogyra, Eyra, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, Guara, Haminura, Ichthyophthira, Isopleura, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora, Mira, Mistura, Moira, Myeloneura, Ophiura, Palmyra, PANDORA, Parapleura, Passiflora, Phylloxera, Pictura, Quadra, Rhabdopleura, samara, Samarra, Sassarara, Senhora, Senora, sierra, signora, Solfatara, Sophora, Sora, Streptoneura, sura, tayra, Terra, tiara, tuatara, Vara, Vettura, Viverra, Xiphura, Yeara, Zapatera. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: hegari.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-r"
	-1 letter: gerah.
	-2 letters: ager, gear, hair, hare, hear, heir, hire, rage, ragi, rhea.
	-3 letters: age, air, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gar, ghi, gie, hae, hag, her, hie, ire, rag, rah, reg, rei, ria, rig.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, ah, ai, ar, eh, er, ha, he, hi, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-r"
	+1 letter: hagride, hearing, hegaris, hegiras.
	+2 letters: adhering, earthing, epigraph, gharries, graphite, hagrides, hangfire, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heritage, ingather, litharge, narghile, nargileh, reaching, shaggier, shearing, thirlage.
	+3 letters: ashlering, breaching, breathing, chagrined, discharge, earthling, epigraphs, epigraphy, epiphragm, fathering, garfishes, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gathering, gaucherie, gearshift, ghastlier, gheraoing, gigahertz, graphemic, graphites, hagridden, haltering, hammering, hampering, hangfires, hankering, harbinger, hardening, harkening, haughtier, heralding, heritages, hermitage, ideograph, ingathers, kashering, lathering, lethargic, litharges, mischarge, narghiles, nargilehs, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, preaching, rehabbing, rehanging, rehashing, rehearing, reheating, reshaping, reshaving, rewashing, scraighed, searching, serigraph, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, thirlages, threading, threaping, threating, wreathing.
	+4 letters: affrighted, airfreight, anglerfish, archegonia, becharming, bighearted, biographee, biographer, blathering, breathings, bridgehead, cashiering, chaffering, chagrinned, chambering, chamfering, chaptering, charminger, chartering, chattering, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, draughtier, earthlight, earthlings, epigrapher, epigraphic, epiphragms, farsighted, feathering, figurehead, freightage, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, gatherings, gaucheries, gearshifts, geographic, graphemics, graphitize, grayfishes, gynarchies, hagberries, harbingers, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headspring, hearkening, heartening, hebraizing, heliograph, hermitages, herniating, highlander, hoarsening, ideographs, ideography, inearthing, ingathered, jaggheries, languisher, leathering, lethargies, lighterage, longhaired, microphage, mimeograph, mischarged, mischarges, mishearing, nightmares, outhearing, overhating, prehearing, preheating, preshaping, prewashing, ratcheting, rechanging, recharging, recharting, rehandling, rehearings, rehearsing, rematching, repatching, rephrasing, reteaching, ringhalses, serigraphs, serigraphy, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shearlings, shrinkages, slathering, springhead, straighted, straighten, straighter, theurgical, unearthing, upreaching, vinegarish, watertight, weathering, wharfinger.
	+5 letters: airfreights, archangelic, archegonial, archegonium, archipelago, atherogenic, biographees, biographers, biographies, bridgeheads, chaperoning, charmingest, chivareeing, cliffhanger, dehydrating, demographic, dischargees, dischargers, draughtiest, earthlights, earthmoving, encroaching, enravishing, enthralling, enwreathing, epigraphers, epigraphies, epigraphist, farthingale, featherings, figureheads, freightages, gangsterish, garnishment, generalship, geographies, graphicness, graphitized, graphitizes, handwringer, harbingered, headsprings, heartstring, heliographs, hemorrhagic, hibernating, highlanders, hypergamies, hyperphagia, hyperphagic, ideographic, inbreathing, ingathering, interchange, lamplighter, languishers, lighterages, managership, menorrhagia, merchanting, microphages, mimeographs, nearsighted, negrophobia, nightwalker, oligarchies, orographies, outreaching, overarching, overhanding, overhanging, overhauling, overheaping, overhearing, overheating, paperweight, preachingly, prehearings, reattaching, rebranching, regathering, rehammering, rehardening, rehydrating, relaunching, renographic, reproaching, researching, rethreading, rheological, searchingly, searchlight, seismograph, semaphoring, serigrapher, shanghaiers, shivareeing, springheads, straightens, straightest, telegraphic, threatening, ungarnished, unthreading, unwreathing, upgathering, videography, warehousing, weatherings, wharfingers, xerographic.
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