hijrah
English
Noun
hijrah (plural hijrahs)
- Alternative form of hijra
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “departure, exodus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hid͡ʒrah/
- Hyphenation: hij‧rah
Noun
hijrah (first-person possessive hijrahku, second-person possessive hijrahmu, third-person possessive hijrahnya)
- 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)
- improvement
Verb
hijrah
- to flee or emigrate to a better place.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of hijrah (ber-, intransitive) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root | hijrah | ||||
| Active | Involuntary | Passive | Imperative | Jussive | |
| Active | berhijrah | terhijrah | dihijrah | hijrah | hijrahlah |
| Locative | – | – | – | – | – |
| Causative / Applicative1 | menghijrahkan | terhijrahkan | dihijrahkan | hijrahkan | hijrahkanlah |
| Causative | |||||
| 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.