jihadi

English

Etymology

From 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)

1. A jihadist.

   Synonyms: jihadist, mujahid

Adjective

jihadi (not comparable)

1. 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

• “jihadi”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: 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)

1. (Islam) jihad (holy war)

Alternative forms

• jàhādī̀

Portuguese

Noun

jihadi m or f by sense (plural jihadis)

1. (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)

1. (Islam) jihad (holy war)