hejira

Other forms of hejira

plural

hejiras·

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 hejira

What does hejira mean?

hejira means "the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 which marked the beginning of the Muslim era; the Muslim calendar begins in that year". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hejira?

hejira has 3 syllables: he-ji-ra. The stress falls on "he".

What is another word for hejira?

Close synonyms include Hegira, exodus, hegira. 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 hejira a common word?

hejira 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.