hejaz

Other forms of hejaz

plural

hejazes·

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 hejaz

What does hejaz mean?

hejaz 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 hejaz?

hejaz has 2 syllables: he-jaz. The stress falls on "he".

What is another word for hejaz?

Close synonyms include Hedjaz, 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 hejaz a common word?

hejaz is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.