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هَجَر
to abandon /haˈdʒara/
verbB2#3759 most common
Also: to desert, to leave, to forsake
Example sentences
هَجَرَ الرَّجُلُ صَديقَهُ.
The man abandoned his friend.
هَجَرَتِ العائلةُ المدينةَ بسبب الحرب.
The family left the city because of the war.
هَجَرْتُ التدخينَ منذ سنتين.
I gave up smoking two years ago.
هَجَرَ الشاعرُ وطنَه ولم يَعُدْ إليه أبداً.
The poet abandoned his homeland and never returned to it.
يَهْجُرُ كثيرٌ من الشباب قراهم بحثاً عن فرص عمل في المدن الكبرى.
Many young people abandon their villages in search of job opportunities in big cities.
لطالما هَجَرَ الكتّابُ العرب القدامى ديارهم فراراً من الاضطهاد السياسي، تاركين إرثاً أدبياً غنياً خلفهم.
Old Arab writers often abandoned their homelands to flee political persecution, leaving behind a rich literary legacy.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَهْجُرُ | هَجَرْتُ | سَأَهْجُرُ |
| 2sg | تَهْجُرُ | هَجَرْتَ | سَتَهْجُرُ |
| 3sg | يَهْجُرُ | هَجَرَ | سَيَهْجُرُ |
| 1pl | نَهْجُرُ | هَجَرْنَا | سَنَهْجُرُ |
| 2pl | تَهْجُرُونَ | هَجَرْتُمْ | سَتَهْجُرُونَ |
| 3pl | يَهْجُرُونَ | هَجَرُوا | سَيَهْجُرُونَ |
Word family
هِجْرَةemigration, the Hijra
مُهَاجِرemigrant, immigrant
هَاجَرَto emigrate (Form III)
مَهْجُورabandoned, desertedهَجْرabandonment, desertion
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic root h-j-r, which carries the core sense of cutting off or separating from something. Classical Arabic dictionaries treat this as the base meaning behind both physical departure and emotional estrangement. The same root gives Arabic its word for the Hijra, the Prophet Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina, which marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
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