English
Hejaz
Hejaz comes from Arabic حَاجِز ‘barrier, obstacle, impediment’, and goes back to حَجَزَ ‘to prevent, to hinder, to block off’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentحَجَزَḥajaza‘to prevent, to hinder, to block off’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentحَاجِزḥājiz‘barrier, obstacle, impediment’next step skipped: Arabic حِجَاز
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentالْحِجَاز
- Englishearliest quotation 1929Hejaz
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentحَجَزَḥajaza‘to prevent, to hinder, to block off’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentحَاجِزḥājiz‘barrier, obstacle, impediment’next step skipped: Arabic حِجَاز
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentالْحِجَاز
- Englishearliest quotation 1929Hejaz
Earliest quotation: 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development: “The tune starts in minor and modulates to Hedjaz…”
Every English word from Arabic حَجَزَ
Today it means
name A mountainous geographic area in northwest Saudi Arabia which gave rise to early Islam and which contains the sites of many holy places.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic حَجَزَ / Hejaz