Muhājir
مهاجر
Say it mu-HAA-jir
One who emigrates
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- h-j-r
- Origin
- Arabic
- Found in
- The Companions
- Also spelled
- Muhajir, Mohajer, Muhacir
Meaning & source
One who emigrates: Ibn Fāris says hājara is to leave one home for another, as the Muhājirūn did when they emigrated from Makkah.
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وهاجَرَ القومُ مِنْ دارٍ إلى دارٍ: تَرَكُوا الأولى للثانية، كما فَعَل المهاجِرُون حِين هاجروا
Who carried this name
- al-Muhājir ibn Abī Umayyah al-Makhzūmī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, no. 8271 (vol. 6, p. 180)