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‖ hegira, hejira, hijra(h
(ˈhɛdʒɪrə, erron. hiːˈdʒaɪrə, ˈhɪdʒrə)
Also 7 hegire, hegyra, hegeira.
[a. med.L. hegira (F. hégire, Sp. hegira, It. egira), ad. Arab. hijrah departure from one's country and friends, spec. al hijrat the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina; f. hajara to separate, go away. The more correct form, directly from Arabic, is hijrah.]
1. The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 a.d., from which the Muslim chronological era is reckoned; hence, this era.
The era is reckoned to begin with 16th July 622, though the actual date of Muhammad's flight is now believed to have been nearly a month earlier. As the era is reckoned by lunar years of 354 and 355 days, it progresses more rapidly than the Christian era, founded upon the solar year.
1590L. Lloyd Consent of Time 709 (Stanf.) Neither the Arabians of their Hegyra. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 381 From this flight the Mahumetans fetch the originall of their Hegeira. 1681L. Addison Disc. Tanger 15 The last Month of the 1073 year of the Hegira. 1788Marsden in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 414 The era of the Mahometans, called by them the Hejerà, or Departure. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. i. 121/1 These transactions occurred in the 38th year of the Hejira. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 299/1 This retreat happened on the 16th of July, 622, and has been adopted as the Mohammedan æra called Hejra.
2. transf. Any exodus or departure.
1753H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 205, I perceived how far I was got back from the London hegira. 1850W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 77, I am sorry to find my hegira from town caused you so much regret and uneasiness. 1886Seeley Short Hist. Napoleon I, i. 16 With this Hijra [flight of the Buonapartes from Corsica to France, 1793] the first period of Napoleon comes to an end.
Hence hegiric, hejiric a., pertaining to the Muslim era; ‖ hijrī (hegiree) a., of the Hijra.
1827G. S. Faber Calendar of Proph. (1844) II. 296 The Hejiric Year 699. 1849Sir H. M. Elliot Bibl. Index Histor. Moham. Ind. I. 48 During the first four Centuries of the Hijrí Era. |