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hijra

see also: Hijra

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hijra (plural hijras)

A eunuch in South Asia, especially one who dresses as a woman. [from 19th c.]
- 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin 2004, page 172:
  When the Mughal court was disbanded, Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other, Hindu, tradition of eunuchry.
A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.
- 1995, Gayatri Reddy, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture), ISBN 0226707563 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070529055321/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16479.ctl]:
  The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane.
- 2011, AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India ISBN 030745472X, page 111:
  Even more surprisingly, there are female hijras, women who were born women, who are drawn into the gharanas by the attraction and apparent safety of the hierarchies' substitute for family life.
- 2013, Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies ISBN 1135942412, page 280:
  Nanda profiles […] an uncastrated hijra who is married to a man and has an adopted son; and a hermaphrodite hijra […]

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hijra (plural hijras)

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The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 smallcaps ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (smallcaps ah 1)
AH: the Islamic era, dated from the Hijra.
Since the Muslim lunar year contains only 354 days, the year 2005 is approximately equivalent to Hijra 1426.
The Islamic calendar, dated from the Hijra

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