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Jihadi

//d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    pertaining to jihad or jihadism not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to a jihad wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A jihadist.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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