هجر
hajara
To emigrate; to leave something unattended.
What it means
Hajara has two linked senses. The first is to leave a place, which gives hijra, emigration for the sake of the faith. The Quran says: “Those who believed, emigrated and struggled in the way of God have hope of God’s mercy” (2:218). The second is to leave a thing alone or neglect it. The Prophet is reported to have said that the true emigrant is the one who abandons what God has forbidden (Sahih al-Bukhari).
Neglect is also meant when the Prophet complains in the Quran: “My Lord, my people have treated this Quran as something abandoned” (25:30). The command to “part from them in a gracious manner” (73:10) uses the same verb for withdrawing from those who mock the message, without hostility. The noun hijra and the participle muhājir, “emigrant”, come from this verb.
Often misunderstood as
Rendered “to leave” alone; in the Quran the verb covers moving for the faith and also neglecting something.
Term and Arabic as listed in Ismail al Faruqi, Toward Islamic English (International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1995), p. 46, listed as HAJARA. The definition is restated here.