interjection
- (used as an exclamation of pain, surprise, pity, complaint, dislike, joy, etc., according to the manner of utterance.)
- in the year of the Hijra; since the Hijra (a.d. 622).
- occurring in a specific year of the Jewish calendar.
interjection
- an exclamation expressing pleasure, pain, sympathy, etc, according to the intonation of the speaker
abbreviation for (indicating years in the Muslim system of dating, numbered from the Hegira (622 AD))
- anno Hegirae
mid-15c., an expression of surprise, delight, disgust or pain in nearly all Indo-European languages, but not found in Old English (where the equivalent expression was la!), so perhaps from Old French a “ah!, oh! woe!”