hajj

English

Alternative forms

• hadj, haj

Etymology

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj, “pilgrimage”), from حَجَّ (ḥajja, “to go, to repair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd͡ʒ/, /hɑːd͡ʒ/, /hʌd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ædʒ, -ɑːdʒ, -ʌdʒ

Noun

hajj (plural hajjes)

2. (Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; the fifth of the five pillars of Islam.
   • 1855, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Appendix I:

     The word Hajj is explained by Moslem divines to mean “Kasd,” or aspiration, and to express man’s sentiment that he is but a wayfarer on earth wending towards another and a nobler world.

   • 2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 June 2015:

     The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.

   • 2023 May 24, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur motorcycle repairman’s corpse released by prison in Kashgar prefecture”, in Roseanne Gerin, Malcom Foster, editors, Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 01 February 2024, RFA Uyghur‎^[3]:

     “He passed away due to diabetes while in prison,” the residential committee member said. “He was serving time in Tumshuq Prison for performing the hajj pilgrimage.”

   • 2026 May 28, Damian Carrington, “Global heating is making hajj ever more dangerous, report finds”, in The Guardian‎^[4], →ISSN:

     Global heating has “fundamentally altered” the climate of Mecca and is exposing millions of hajj pilgrims to extreme and dangerous heat even in months outside summer, new analysis has found.

Derived terms

• hajji

Translations

pilgrimage to Mecca

• Albanian: haxh m
• Amharic: ሐጅ (ḥäǧ)
• Arabic: حَجّ (ar) m (ḥajj), الْحَجّ (ar) m (al-ḥajj) (definite)

  Egyptian Arabic: حَجّ m (ḥagg)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܚܓ m (ḥag)

• Armenian: հաջ (hy) (haǰ)
• Azerbaijani: həcc
• Bajau:

  West Coast Bajau: aji'

• Bashkir: хаж (xaj)
• Belarusian: хадж m (xadž)
• Bengali: হজ্জ (bn) (hojj)
• Bulgarian: хадж m (hadž)
• Chechen: хьаьж (ḥʳäž)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: хаҗы (hažɨ)

  Mandarin: 朝覲 / 朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝聖 / 朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 麥加朝聖 / 麦加朝圣 (Màijiā cháoshèng)

• Crimean Tatar: hac, acılıq, hacılıq
• Czech: hadždž (cs) m
• Danish: hajj (da) c
• Dhivehi: ޙައްޖު (ḥajju)
• Dutch: hadj (nl) m
• Esperanto: haĝo
• Estonian: hadž (et)
• Finnish: hadž (fi)
• French: hajj (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰაჯი (haǯi)
• German: Hadsch (de) m or f
• Greek: χατζ (el) n (chatz)
• Hausa: hajji, haji
• Hebrew: חַג׳ m (haj)
• Hindi: हज्ज (hi) m (hajj), हज (hi) m (haj)
• Icelandic: hadsjí n
• Indonesian: haji (id)
• Interlingua: hadj
• Italian: hajj m
• Japanese: ハッジ (ja) (hajji), メッカ巡礼 (Mekka junrei)
• Kannada: ಹಜ್ (haj), ಹಡ್ಜಿ (haḍji)
• Kazakh: қажылық (qajylyq), қажы (qajy)
• Khmer: ហាជ្ជី (haaccii)
• Kimaragang: aji
• Korean: 하즈 (ko) (hajeu), 하지 (ko) (haji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hec (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ажы (ky) (ajı)
• Latvian: hadžs m
• Lithuanian: hadžas m
• Macedonian: хаџ m (hadž), а́џилак m (ádžilak)
• Malay: haji (ms)
• Malayalam: ഹജ്ജ് (ml) (hajjŭ)
• Maltese: il-Haġġ m
• Marathi: हज्ज (hajja)
• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: aji

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хаж (mn) (xaž)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hajj m

  Nynorsk: hadj m

• Nupe: hájì
• Pashto: حج (ps) m (haj)
• Persian:

  Dari: حَجّ (fa) (hajj)

  Iranian Persian: حَجّ (fa) (hajj)

• Polish: hadż (pl) m, hadżdż (pl) m
• Portuguese: hajj m, hadj m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਹੱਜ (pa) m (hajja)

  Western Punjabi: حَجّ (pnb) m (ḥajj)

• Russian: хадж (ru) m (xadž), пало́мничество (ru) n (palómničestvo) (в Ме́кку)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хаџ m, хаџѝлук m

  Latin: hadž (sh) m, hadžìluk (sh) m

• Sindhi: حَج (ḥaj)
• Slovak: hadž f, hadždž f
• Slovene: hadž m
• Somali: xaj
• Spanish: hajj m
• Swahili: haji class IX
• Swedish: hajj c
• Tagalog: hajj
• Tajik: ҳаҷ (tg) (haj), ҳаҷҷ (tg) (hajj)
• Tamil: ஹஜ் (ta) (haj)
• Tatar: хаҗ (tt) (xac)
• Thai: ฮัจญ์ (th) (hát)
• Turkish: hac (tr), hacılık (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: حج (hacc)

• Turkmen: haj
• Ukrainian: хадж m (xadž)
• Urdu: حَجّ (ur) m (hajj)
• Uyghur: ھەج (hej)
• Uzbek: haj (uz)
• Welsh: hajj m

See also

• ‘umra

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• haje, hadji, haji, háge, hagi

Noun

hajj m (uncountable)

1. (Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)

Tagalog

Noun

hajj (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜇ᜔ᜐ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of haj