hegira

See also Hegira

English

Alternative forms

• hijra

Etymology

Arabic breaking-off

Noun

hegira (plural hegiras)

1. A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 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.