hajj

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hæd͡ʒ/, /hɑːd͡ʒ/, /hʌd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ædʒ, -ɑːd͡ʒ, -ʌd͡ʒ

Noun

hajj (countable and uncountable, plural hajjes)

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

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Noun

hajj m (uncountable)

  1. (Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)
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