hadj

[ UK /hˈæd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba
    for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship
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  • Fierce Panties: If running hipsters start making the pilgrimage to Oregon inorder to perfect the promiscuous Prefontaine moustache or shuffle in original waffle soled joggers, should it be called the HIJ hadj? Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs
  • A hadji is someone who takes a pilgrimage to Mecca. Robert Koehler: The Hounds of Heaven
  • We rode over mountainous ground, where the sand-stone again appears among the grauwacke and feldspath, until, at two hours and a half from Kolbe, we reached Wady Dal (وادي دال), which may be called the southern extremity of the Batn el Hadjar. Travels in Nubia
  • Viotti M, Hadjantonakis AK (2008) The endoderm of the mouse embryo arises by dynamic widespread intercalation of embryonic and extraembryonic lineages. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Shaikh Ayan and Hadj 'Othman, of the quarantine, amusing themselves with jereed-playing and other mimic manoeuvres of warfare, which they performed very cleverly. Byeways in Palestine
  • But he has made money in some way and the hadj to Mecca is, you might say, made on the roller skates of his daughter, Undine, who for a good while has been dreaming about Fifth Avenue in her Apex backyard. Mrs. Wharton in New York
  • They reckon their ancestry from the mother, and when my Cretan cavass, Hadji Houssein, spoke of his home, it was always as his “mother's house.” The Autobiography of a Journalist
  • Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and the ludicrous power of Fielding himself, one who was a perfect stranger to the subject must necessarily produce an unfavourable contrast. The Talisman
  • So they could tell their sons that they had followed the hadj as far as the Third Cataract. Shadow Games
  • He was guilty of the most flagrant acts of injustice; he oppressed the pilgrims, extorted money from them, confiscated the property of all the hadjys and foreigners who died here, withheld the surra brought from Travels in Arabia
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