hijrah

English

Noun

hijrah (plural hijrahs)

1. Alternative form of hijra

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “departure, exodus”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhid͡ʒrah/ [ˈhid͡ʒ.rah]
• Rhymes: -id͡ʒrah
• Syllabification: hij‧rah

Noun

hijrah (first-person possessive hijrahku, second-person possessive hijrahmu, third-person possessive hijrahnya)

1. Hijra: the flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1)
2. improvement

Verb

hijrah

1. to flee or emigrate to a better place.

Conjugation

Conjugation of hijrah (ber-, intransitive)
Root	hijrah
	Active	Involuntary	Passive	Basic / Imperative	Emphatic / Jussive
Active	berhijrah	terhijrah	dihijrah	hijrah	hijrahlah
Locative	–	–	–	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	menghijrahkan	terhijrahkan	dihijrahkan	hijrahkan	hijrahkanlah
	Causative
Active	–	–	–	–	–
Locative	–	–	–	–	–
Causative / Applicative1	memperhijrahkan	terperhijrahkan	diperhijrahkan	perhijrahkan	perhijrahkanlah
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• berhijrah
• menghijrahkan
• penghijrahan

 

Related terms

• hijriah

 

Further reading

• “hijrah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.