NOUN
- a coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
How To Use Hijaz In A Sentence
- Al-Hijaz are almost a1ways old silver pieces, of the turnip shape, with hunting cases and an outer etui of thick leather. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- Shijazhuang is about 175 miles southwest of Beijing.
- The Hijaz and some sea-ports, such as Jedda and others, are at present absolutely under the Turkish Government; while Bahrein, Oman and its capital Muscat, and Yaman are more or less independent. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
- The purest speakers are still the Badawin who are often not understood by the citizen-folk (e.g. of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad) at whose gates they tent; and a few classes like the Banú Fahim of Al-Hijáz still converse sub-classically, ever and anon using the terminal vowels and the nunnation elsewhere obsolete. Arabian nights. English
- But the acme of beauty is in the hair and, indeed, al-Shihab the Hijazi hath brought together all these items in his doggrel verse of the metre Rajaz, 489 and it is this: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The Hijazi is a round fruit, sweet, but insipid, which is also the reproach of the Sawadi, or black grape. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
