jihad

English

Wikipedia

The raya or "black flag of jihad".

Alternative forms

• jehad

Etymology

From Arabic جهاد (jihād, “struggle; effort”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jĭ-häd', IPA: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/, X-SAMPA: /dZI"hA:d/
• enPR: jə-häd', IPA: /dʒəˈhɑːd/, X-SAMPA: /dZ@"hA:d/

Noun

jihad (plural jihads)

Wikiquote

1. (Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
   • 1938, "Holy War", Time, 22 Aug 1938:

     Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 26:

     Small groups of killers, the scent of blood in their nostrils, now fanned out by taxi, bicycle or even on horseback into the surrounding countryside, spreading the word that a general jihad, or ‘holy war’, had broken out.

   • 2013, Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian, 8 May 2013:

     The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.

2. An aggressive campaign for an idea.
3. (theology) a personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil

Translations

holy war undertaken by Muslims

• Arabic: جهاد (ar) (jihaad) m
• Armenian: ջիհադ (hy) (ǰihad)
• Basque: jihad (eu)
• Belarusian: джыхад (be) (džyxád) m
• Bulgarian: джихад (bg) (džihád) m
• Catalan: jihad (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 討伐異教徒, simpl. 讨伐异教徒 (pinyin: tǎofá yìjiāotú), trad. 擁護運動, simpl. 拥护运动 (pinyin: yōnghù yùndòng), trad. 聖戰, simpl. 圣战 (pinyin: shèngzhàn)

• Danish: jihad (da) c
• Dutch: jihad (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝihado (eo)
• Finnish: jihad (fi)
• French: jihad (fr), djihad (fr) m
• German: Dschihad (de) m, Djihad (de) m, (rare) Jihad (de) m
• Hebrew: ג׳יהאד (he) (jihad) m
• Hindi: जिहाद (hi) (jihād) m
• Hungarian: dzsihád (hu)
• Indonesian: jihad (id)
• Interlingua: jihad (ia)
• Irish: jiohád (ga) m
• Italian: jihad (it) f
• Japanese: ジハード (ja) (jihādo), 遠征 (ja) (ensei)

• Korean: 지하드 (ko) (jihadeu)
• Kurdish: cîhad (ku) f
• Latvian: džihāds (lv) m
• Macedonian: џихад (mk) (džihád) m
• Malay: jihad (ms)
• Marathi: जिहाद (mr) (jihāda) m
• Norwegian: jihad (no) m
• Persian: جهاد (fa) (jihâd)
• Polish: dżihad (pl) m
• Portuguese: jihad (pt) m
• Romanian: jihad (ro) n
• Russian: джихад (ru) (džixád) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ђихад (sh) m, џихад (sh) m

  Roman: đihad (sh) m, džihad (sh) m

• Slovene: džihad (sl) m
• Spanish: yihad (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: jihad (sv) c
• Turkish: cihat (tr)
• Ukrainian: джихад (uk) (džyxád) m
• Urdu: جہاد (ur) (jihād) m

aggressive campaign

• Finnish: pyhä sota (fi)

personal spiritual struggle

• Finnish: kilvoittelu (fi)

See also

• Crusade
• holy war
• infidel

Anagrams

• hadji

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Finnish

Noun

jihad

1. jihad (Muslims' holy war)

Declension

Declension of jihad (type risti) singular plural nominative jihad jihadit genitive jihadin jihadien partitive jihadia jihadeja accusative jihad jihadin jihadit inessive jihadissa jihadeissa elative jihadista jihadeista illative jihadiin jihadeihin adessive jihadilla jihadeilla ablative jihadilta jihadeilta allative jihadille jihadeille essive jihadina jihadeina translative jihadiksi jihadeiksi instructive – jihadein abessive jihaditta jihadeitta comitative – jihadeineen

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French

Alternative forms

• djihad

Etymology

From Arabic جهاد (jihād, “struggle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʒi.ad/

Noun

jihad m (plural jihads)

1. jihad

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Italian

Noun

jihad m and f (invariable)

1. jihad