hijaz

Other forms of hijaz

plural

hijazes·

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 hijaz

What does hijaz mean?

hijaz 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 hijaz?

hijaz has 2 syllables and divides as hi-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 hijaz?

Close synonyms include Hejaz, Hedjaz. 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 hijaz a common word?

hijaz 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.