hija

• hi

From Arabic هِيَ (hiya).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ja/

hija

1. she (third-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

Inherited from Old Spanish fija, from Latin fīlia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈixa/ [ˈi.xa]

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• Rhymes: -ixa
• Syllabification: hi‧ja

hija f (plural hijas, masculine hijo, masculine plural hijos)

1. daughter; female equivalent of hijo

• → Tagalog: iha

• “hijo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Arabic حِجَّة (ḥijja).

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hija (n class, plural hija)

1. pilgrimage

• -hiji (“to go on a pilgrimage”)