hadj
IPA: hˈædʒ
noun
- Alternative spelling of hajj [(Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.]
Examples of "hadj" in Sentences
- I plan to move the article to Hadj Boudella.
- The cave opens north to Wadi el Hadj in Precipice mountains.
- Qafzeh cave opens onto a wall of adi el Hadj in the flank of Precipice Mountain.
- So all this was at the back of my mind when I went on my personal hadj to Edinburgh.
- So they could tell their sons that they had followed the hadj as far as the Third Cataract.
- While the Nar prepared for a holy hadj the lords and merchants of Gea-Xle began setting up to use us to break through a pirate blockade that had become impenetrable in recent years.
- In every hadj some of the pilgrims remain behind: the Mohammedan, whenever resident for any time in a town, takes a wife, and is thus often induced to settle permanently on the spot.
- 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.
- 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?
- He also levied a tax as well upon all cattle and provisions carried from the interior of the country into Djidda, as upon those carried into Mekka, Tayf, and Yembo, except what came with the two great hadj-caravans from the north, which passed every where duty-free.
- So, if that means permanent occupier bases, largest self-sufficient embassy in the world, green zone myopia, daily death counts to shame God, months turning into years of insufficient safety, electricity, food or jobs for Iraqi citizens, hardening of treatment for those now called 'hadj', so be it.
- Privately she didn't know if she hadj the temperament the patience or the compassion to deal with Clarissa's dangerous and neurotic behaviour, and then even if she was prepared to do so, to make herself tolerate and accept Clarissa's role in James 'life, how could she even think of allowing Lucy to be exposed to her venom a second time?