fedayee
English
Etymology
Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʾiyy), plural: فِدائِيُّون (fidāʾiyyūn). Plural in oblique cases or colloquial/dialectal in all cases is فِدائِيِّين (fidāʾiyyīn).
Noun
fedayee (plural fedayees or fedayeen)
- An Arab guerrilla or commando.
- (historical) fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
References
- thefreedictionary.com