hajj

English

Alternative forms

• hadj, haj

Etymology

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj, “pilgrimage”), from حَجَّ (ḥajja, “to go, to repair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd͡ʒ/, /hɑːd͡ʒ/, /hʌd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ædʒ, -ɑːd͡ʒ, -ʌd͡ʒ

Noun

hajj (countable and uncountable, plural hajjes)

1. (Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.
   • 1855, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Appendix I:

     The word Hajj is explained by Moslem divines to mean “Kasd,” or aspiration, and to express man’s sentiment that he is but a wayfarer on earth wending towards another and a nobler world.

   • 2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.

   • 2023 May 24, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur motorcycle repairman’s corpse released by prison in Kashgar prefecture”, in Roseanne Gerin, Malcom Foster, editors, Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 01 February 2024, RFA Uyghur‎^[3]:

     “He passed away due to diabetes while in prison,” the residential committee member said. “He was serving time in Tumshuq Prison for performing the hajj pilgrimage.”

Derived terms

• hajji

Translations

pilgrimage to Mecca

• Albanian: haxh m
• Amharic: ሐጅ (ḥäǧ)
• Arabic: حَجّ (ar) m (ḥajj)

  Egyptian Arabic: حَجّ m (ḥagg)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܚܓ m (ḥag)

• Armenian: հաջ (hy) (haǰ)
• Azerbaijani: həcc
• Bashkir: хаж (xaj)
• Belarusian: хадж m (xadž)
• Bengali: হজ্জ (bn) (hojj)
• Bulgarian: хадж m (hadž)
• Central Melanau: aji
• Chechen: хьаьж (ḥʳäž)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: хаҗы (hažɨ)

  Mandarin: 朝覲／朝觐 (zh) (cháojìn), 朝聖／朝圣 (zh) (cháoshèng), 麥加朝聖／麦加朝圣 (Màijiā cháoshèng)

• Crimean Tatar: hac, acılıq, hacılıq
• Czech: hadždž (cs) m
• Danish: hajj (da) c
• Dhivehi: ޙައްޖު (ḥajju)
• Dutch: hadj (nl) m
• Esperanto: haĝo
• Estonian: hadž (et)
• Finnish: hadž (fi)
• French: hajj (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰაჯი (haǯi)
• German: Hadsch (de) m or f
• Greek: χατζ (el) (chatz)
• Hausa: hajji, haji
• Hebrew: חַג׳ m (haj)
• Hindi: हज्ज (hi) m (hajj), हज (hi) m (haj)
• Icelandic: hadsjí n
• Indonesian: haji (id)
• Interlingua: hadj
• Italian: hajj m
• Japanese: ハッジ (ja) (hajji), メッカ巡礼 (Mekka junrei)
• Kazakh: қажылық (qajylyq), қажы (qajy)
• Khmer: ហាជ្ជី (haaccii)
• Kimaragang: aji
• Korean: 하즈 (ko) (hajeu), 하지 (ko) (haji)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hec (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ажы (ky) (ajı)
• Latvian: hadžs m
• Lithuanian: hadžas m
• Macedonian: хаџ m (hadž), а́џилак m (ádžilak)
• Malay: haji (ms)
• Maltese: il-Haġġ m
• Marathi: हज्ज (hajja)
• Norwegian: hajj m (Bokmål), hadj m (Nynorsk)
• Nupe: hájì
• Pashto: حج (ps) m (haǰ)
• Persian: حج (fa) (hajj)
• Polish: hadż (pl) m, hadżdż (pl) m
• Portuguese: hajj m, hadj m
• Punjabi: ਹੱਜ (pa) (hajja)
• Russian: хадж (ru) m (xadž), пало́мничество (ru) n (palómničestvo) (в Ме́кку)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хаџ m, хаџилук m

  Roman: hadž (sh) m, hadžiluk (sh) m

• Sindhi: حج
• Slovak: hadž f, hadždž f
• Slovene: hadž m
• Somali: xaj
• Spanish: hajj m
• Swahili: haji
• Swedish: hajj c
• Tagalog: hajj
• Tajik: ҳаҷ (tg) (haj), ҳаҷҷ (tg) (hajj)
• Tatar: хаҗ (tt) (xac)
• Thai: ฮัจญ์ (th) (hát)
• Turkish: hac (tr), hacılık (tr)
• Turkmen: haj
• Ukrainian: хадж m (xadž)
• Urdu: حج (ur) m (hajj)
• Uyghur: ھەج (hej)
• Uzbek: haj (uz)
• Welsh: hajj m
• West Coast Bajau: aji'
• Western Panjabi: حج (pnb)

See also

• ‘umra

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• hadj

Noun

hajj m (uncountable)

1. (Islam) hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)