Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ֆիդայի (fidayi)

  1. (history) fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Declension

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References

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  • ֆիդայի”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980