| 词汇 | hegira |
| 词源 | hegira. Any flight, often a political one, to a more desirable place than where one is, is called a hegira. It is so called from the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in a.d. 622 to escape persecution by wealthy traders, a date regarded as the beginning of the religion of Islam. |
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