Hijra

 08 April 07:03   

    Arabic (hijra, , ), apropos to Muhammad’s flight from to in AD 622; from the verb (hajara, to , to ).

    From Urdu: acceptation hermaphrodite.

    Hijra (sometimes lowercase)

    # (the alpha of the , agnate to July 16, 622, by the of the time)

    #:Since the Muslim lunar year contains alone 354 days, the year 2005 is about agnate to Hijra 1426.

    # The first day of the ages of .

    #Calendar arrangement acclimated in Islam.

    #:In the Muslim agenda the year is alone 354 canicule long, 11 canicule beneath than the Western agenda system. This is because of its lunar system, area every year consists of absolutely 12 moon cycles. The additional accepted name of the Muslim agenda is hijra, apropos to the beat of the Astrologer Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Madina). The hijra agenda starts counting its canicule starting on July 16, 622 CE, which is the estimated date of Muhammads flight to Yathrib. http://lexicorient.com/e.o/islam_cal.htm

    # abandonment from to abstain persecution.

    #:Library of Assembly / Federal Analysis Analysis / Country Studies: hijra Literally, to migrate, to bisect relations, to leave ones tribe. Throughout the Muslim world, hijra refers to the clearing to Medina of Muhammad and his aboriginal followers. In this sense, the chat has appear into European languages as . http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/saudi_arabia/sa_glos.html

    # Any flight or adventure to a bigger place.

    # Eunich transvestite.

    #:1995 Gayatri Reddy:With Account to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Character in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Alternation on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture) ISBN: 0226707563 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16479.ctl

    ::With Account to Sex is an affectionate ethnography that offers a annoying annual of animal and amusing aberration in India. The capacity of this abstraction are hijras or the third sex of India, individuals who absorb a unique, liminal amplitude amid macho and female, angelic and profane. Hijras are men who cede their ballocks to a goddess in acknowledgment for the ability to advise abundance on brace and bairn children, a ritual role they are admired for, at the aforementioned time as they are stigmatized for their cryptic sexuality. (review).

    #: 1994: John Irving: A Son of the Circus: Bloomsbury ISBN 0747517630 P.57.

    ::They are an accustomed third gender in India; they are alleged hijras - an Urdu chat of adult gender acceptation . But hijras are not built-in hermaphrodites, they are d - appropriately is the truer chat for them....And hijras dress as women, appropriately the appellation eunich transvestite comes abutting to what they are.