Dhu'l-Hijja

English

Alternative forms

• Dhulhijja, Dhulhijjah, Zulhijja, Zulhijjah
• Dhu'l-Hijjah, Dhul-Hijja, Dhul-Hijjah
• Dhu al-Hijja, Dhu al-Hijjah, Dhul Hijja, Dhul Hijjah

Etymology

From Arabic ذُو الْحِجَّة (ḏū l-ḥijja), from Arabic ذُو (ḏū, “possessed of”) ‎ Arabic الْحِجَّة (al-ḥijja, “the pilgrimage”).

Proper noun

Dhu'l-Hijja

1. The twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar, during which the hajj takes place.
   • 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 54:

     Having performed the rites of Pilgrimage, on the twentieth day precisely of Dhu'l-Hijjah I went out of Mecca in company with the commander of al-Iraq.

   • 2003, Arshad Khan, Islam 101: Principles and Practice, page 60:

     Stay at Arafat on 9th Dhu al-Hijjah from after dawn to slightly after sunset (when pilgrims proceed to Muzdalfa).

Translations

twelfth month of the Islamic calendar

• Arabic: ذُو الْحِجَّة m (ḏū l-ḥijja)
• Japanese: ズー・アル゠ヒッジャ (Zū aru-Hijja)
• Kazakh: зұлхижжа (zūlxijja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زولحەججە (zulḧecce)

• Ottoman Turkish: ذی الحجه (zilhicce)
• Persian: ذیحجه (zihije)
• Tajik: зулҳиҷҷа (zulhijja)
• Turkish: Zilhicce
• Urdu: ذوالحجہ (zulhijeh)
• Uyghur: زۇلھىججە (zulhijje)
• Uzbek: zulhijja (uz)

See also

(Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja ^{(Category: en:Islamic calendar months)}