hegira
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Etymology[edit]
Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “exodus; emigration”). Doublet of hijra.
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hegira (plural hegiras)
- A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 43:
- By all odds the most remarkable westward migration before the California gold rush of 1849 was the Mormon hegira to the Great Salt Lake basin.