Anagrams of: JIRGA_

• A eunuch in South Asia, especially one who dresses as a woman.

• A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.

• The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1)

• AH: the Islamic era, dated from the Hijra.

• The Islamic calendar, dated from the Hijra

• Any similar flight or emigration to a better place.

• an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca

• crested largely blue bird

• United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

• an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

• an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

• the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba

• re-equip a factory or plant

• a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body