different between mecca vs hegira

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mecca (plural meccas)

Alternative form of Mecca; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.

mecca f (invariable)

Arabic ???????? (hijra, “exodus; emigration”). Doublet of hijra.

hegira (plural hegiras)

A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 43:
  By all odds the most remarkable westward migration before the California gold rush of 1849 was the Mormon hegira to the Great Salt Lake basin.

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