hedjaz

Other forms of hedjaz

plural

hedjazes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hedjaz

What does hedjaz mean?

hedjaz means "a coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia".

How many syllables are in hedjaz?

hedjaz has 2 syllables and divides as hed-jaz under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hedjaz?

Close synonyms include Hejaz, Hijaz. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hedjaz a common word?

hedjaz is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.