单词 | hegira |
释义 | Hegiran. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > instance of > specifically of Mohammed to Medina Hegira1590 the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods > of other cultures Hegira1590 Vikrama1858 1590 L. Lloyd Consent of Time 709 Neither the Arabians of their Hegyra. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 381 From this flight the Mahumetans fetch the originall of their Hegeira. 1681 L. Addison Moores Baffled 15 The last Month of the 1073 year of the Hegira. 1788 W. Marsden in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 414 The era of the Mahometans, called by them the Hejerà, or Departure. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 121/1 These transactions occurred in the 38th year of the Hejira. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 299/1 This retreat happened on the 16th of July, 622, and has been adopted as the Mohammedan æra called Hejra. 2. transferred. Frequently with lower-case initial. Any exodus or departure. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > instance of disanchoring1548 Exodus1623 Hegira1753 1753 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 205 I perceived how far I was got back from the London hegira. 1850 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 77 I am sorry to find my hegira from town caused you so much regret and uneasiness. 1886 J. R. Seeley 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. Derivatives hegiric adj. (also hejiric) pertaining to the Muslim era. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > in other cultures Hegiran1708 hegiric1828 Saka1886 Heian1893 protodynastic1900 Vikrama1910 Gerzean1925 Semainean1925 Six Dynasties1934 Tao Kuang1960 1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy II. iv. vii. 426 The Hejiric Year 699. hijrī adj. (also hegiree) of the Hegira. ΚΠ 1849 H. M. Elliot Bibliogr. Index Historians Muhammedan India I. 48 During the first four Centuries of the Hijrí Era. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1590 |
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