hijra

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İngilizce - Türkçe
(Din) Hicret: Hz. Peygamber Aleyhissalâtü Vesselâm'ın Mekke'den Medine'ye hicret etmesi. İslâmiyetin ilk zuhurunda, şeref ve izzetleri zedelenen Mekke'deki putperest müşrikler daima Hz. Peygamber'e su-i kastlar tertipliyorlardı. Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz (A.S.M.) Mekke'yi bırakıp Medinelilerin dâvetini kabul ederek Hz. Ebu Bekir (R.A.) ile birlikte 622 senesinde hicrete mecbur oldu. Bu seneye Hicret senesi denildi. İslâm takvimlerinde tarih bu seneden başlar ve buna hicret yılı veya hicrî yıl denir
Hicret
İngilizce - İngilizce
Hegira (the beginning of the Muslim era, equivalent to July 16, 622, by the Julian calendar of the time)

Since the Muslim lunar year contains only 354 days, the year 2005 is approximately equivalent to Hijra 1426.

The first day of the Islamic month of Muharram
Muhammad’s departure from Mecca to avoid persecution

Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies: hijra Literally, to migrate, to sever relations, to leave one's tribe. Throughout the Muslim world, hijra refers to the migration to Medina of Muhammad and his early followers. In this sense, the word has come into European languages as hegira. http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/saudi_arabia/sa_glos.html.

Calendar system used in Islam

In the Muslim calendar the year is only 354 days long, 11 days shorter than the Western calendar system. This is because of its lunar system, where every year consists of exactly 12 moon cycles. The other common name of the Muslim calendar is hijra, referring to the fleeing of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Madina). The hijra calendar starts counting its days starting on July 16, 622 CE, which is the estimated date of Muhammad's flight to Yathrib. http://lexicorient.com/e.o/islam_cal.htm.

Any flight or journey to a better place
A member of a third gender found in India and Pakistan

They are an accepted third gender in India; they are called hijras - an Urdu word of masculine gender meaning hermaphrodite. But hijras are not born hermaphrodites, they are emasculated - hence eunuch is the truer word for them....And hijras dress as women, hence the term eunich transvestite comes closest to what they are.

Alternative capitalization of Hijra
(Din) Hijra, as an Arabic word meaning migration (also romanised as hijrah, hejira and hegira) (cf. Hebrew הגירה hagirah for emigration) refers to the emigration of Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622, marking the first year of the Islamic calendar, 1 AH (anno higirae)
{i} Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD
Muhammad's departure from Mecca to avoid persecution
Eunich transvestite
Literally, the "Breaking of Bonds"; specifically Muhammad's flight from Mecca toward Madina in 622 CE, it marks the beginning of the Muslim Calendar, it also means abandoning old ways to embrace Islam
The emigration of the Prophet and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622; this event also marked the beginning of the Muslim calendar
1 A person who is neither a man nor a woman 2 A person who is a member of the Hijra community
Islamic lunar calendar
Literally, to migrate, to sever relations, to leave one's tribe Throughout the Muslim world, hijra refers to the migration to Medina of Muhammad and his early followers In this sense, the word has come into European languages as hegira
'Flight'; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib 'Flight'; Muhammad's escape from Mecca to Yathrib
Literally, to migrate, to sever relations, to leave one's tribe Throughout the Muslim world, hijra refers to the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers to Medina In this sense, the word has come into European languages as hegira The year of Muhammad's hijra constitutes the beginning of the Islamic calendar
The Migration of the Prophet from Makkah to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 AD
The migration of Muslims to Medina
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