"hegira" meaning in English

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        "3": "هِجْرَة",
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        "5": "exodus; emigration"
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      "name": "bor"
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  "etymology_text": "From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “exodus; emigration”). Doublet of hijra.",
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      "form": "hegiras",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 43:",
          "text": "By all odds the most remarkable westward migration before the California gold rush of 1849 was the Mormon hegira to the Great Salt Lake basin.",
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        "A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus."
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          "journey",
          "journey"
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        [
          "taken",
          "taken"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
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          "danger",
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          "exodus",
          "exodus"
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        {
          "word": "hijra"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪɹə/"
    }
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  "word": "hegira"
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      "name": "bor"
    },
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  "etymology_text": "From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “exodus; emigration”). Doublet of hijra.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 43:",
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        "A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus."
      ],
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          "danger",
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