jihadi

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
18
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/
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/d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/ · /d͡ʒəˈhɑːdi/

Definition of jihadi

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A jihadist.
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noun

  1. A jihadist.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)pertaining to jihad or jihadism
    “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.”
    “Yet people are miserable and disillusioned, joining jihadi groups in among the largest numbers per capita of any country in the world, and making up the majority of boat-borne migrants to Italy this year.”

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Etymology

From jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.

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