Hejaz
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic الْحِجَاز (al-ḥijāz).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hɪˈdʒɑːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Hejaz
- A mountainous geographic area in northwest Saudi Arabia which gave rise to early Islam and which contains the sites of many holy places.
- (historical) A former kingdom in modern Saudi Arabia, existing between 1924 and 1932, when it merged with Najd to form the present state of Saudi Arabia.
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Portuguese
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[edit]Hejaz m
- Hejaz (a mountainous geographic area in northwest Saudi Arabia which gave rise to early Islam and which contains the sites of many holy places)
- (historical) Hejaz (a former kingdom in modern Saudi Arabia, existing between 1924 and 1932, when it merged with Najd to form the present state of Saudi Arabia)
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- English terms borrowed from Arabic
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- English terms derived from the Arabic root ح ج ز
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- en:Geographic and cultural areas of Saudi Arabia
- en:Places in Saudi Arabia
- en:Islam
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Former polities
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
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- pt:Geographic and cultural areas of Saudi Arabia
- pt:Places in Saudi Arabia
- pt:Islam
- Portuguese terms with historical senses
- pt:Former polities