jihadi
English
Etymology
jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/, /d͡ʒəˈhɑːdi/
Noun
jihadi (plural jihadis)
- A jihadist.
- Synonyms: jihadist, mujahid
Adjective
jihadi (not comparable)
- pertaining to jihad or jihadism
- 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
- What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
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References
- “jihadi”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(d)ʒì.háː.dìː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [d͡ʒɪ̀.háː.dìː]
Noun
jìhādī̀ m (possessed form jìhādìn)
- (Islam) jihad (holy war)
Alternative forms
- jàhādī̀
Portuguese
Noun
jihadi m or f by sense (plural jihadis)
- (Islam) mujahid; jihadist (a Muslim engaging in jihad)
- Synonyms: jihadista, mujahid
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).
Pronunciation
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Noun
jihadi (n class, plural jihadi)
- (Islam) jihad (holy war)