jihadi
English edit
Etymology edit
jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jihadi (plural jihadis)
Adjective edit
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[1]:
- 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.
References edit
- “jihadi”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Hausa edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jìhādī̀ m (possessed form jìhādìn)
Alternative forms edit
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
jihadi m or f by sense (plural jihadis)
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
jihadi (n class, plural jihadi)