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Shaheed

//ʃəˈhiːd// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.

    "She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception."

  2. 2
    Arabic term for holy martyrs wordnet

Etymology

From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).

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