How to say "migration, emigration" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningmigration, emigration
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
هِجْرَة
hijraהג'רה
هجرة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
הגירה
hagiraهَاگِيرَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ه-ج-رHebrew root
ה-ג-רModern Hebrew הגירה is built on this very root: Hebrew הגר 'to emigrate' was coined on Arabic hajara (see the immigrant entry), with ج answering ג. The older comparison with Biblical גֵּר 'stranger, sojourner' (as in the name הגר, Hagar) is speculative.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
هِجْرَة
higraהגרהHard g in Cairo: higra.
In a phrase
هِجْرَة كَبِيرَة
hijra kabīraהג'רה כבירהa large migration