hajj

Etymology

From Arabic حَجّ (ḥajj, “pilgrimage”), from حَجَّ (ḥajja, “to go, to repair”).

noun

1. (Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam.
   The word Hajj is explained by Moslem divines to mean “Kasd,” or aspiration, and to express man’s sentiment that he is but a wayfarer on earth wending towards another and a nobler world. 1855, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Appendix I
   The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims. 2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic