jihadist

English

Etymology

jihad +‎ -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".[1] The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s.[2][3][4].

Noun

jihadist (plural jihadists)

1. One who participates in a jihad, an Islamic holy war or conflict; a mujahid.
2. An adherent of jihadism.
3. One who is militant for their religion (or irreligion).
   • 2006, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: 2005: the Year in Review, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 226:

     […] only a matter of time before Christian jihadists start strapping bombs to their bodies and going off on suicide missions in the name of Jesus Christ.

   • 2009, Robert S. McElvaine, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America, Broadway Books (→ISBN), page 178:

     Like Muslim jihadists, Christian jihadists such as these two are willing to sacrifice as they seek to impose their religious tyranny on others.

   • 2010, John F. MacArthur, The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ, Thomas Nelson (→ISBN):

     […] with Christian jihadists wearing bandoliers, waving real weapons, and waging a literal flesh-and-blood incursion against teachers of false religions.

   • 2012, Florian Homm, Rogue Financier: The Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist, FinanzBuch Verlag (→ISBN):

     By the end of the semester, only one radical Jewish jihadist in my study group kept being a racist pig and attacking me personally in section discussions.

   • 2016, Larry Alex Taunton, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist, Thomas Nelson (→ISBN), page 94:

     I was prepared to meet a radical atheist jihadist. Would we brawl right there in my hotel room? I half expected just that.

   • 2017, Emmanuel Carrère, The Kingdom (→ISBN), page 371:

     […] and even later evolved into the Jewish jihadist who wrote the Book of Revelation.

Synonyms

• mujahid, jihadi, takfiri

Translations

one who participates in a jihad

• Arabic: مُجَاهِد m (mujāhid)
• Azerbaijani: cıhadçı, mücahid
• Bulgarian: муджахидин m (mudžahidin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖戰者／圣战者 (shèngzhànzhě), 圣战者 (shèngzhànzhě), 聖戰士／圣战士, 圣战士 (shèngzhànshì), 奮戰者／奋战者, 奋战者 (fènzhànzhě) (a number of other translations exist with a 圣战 "holy war" part)

• Czech: džihádista (cs) m
• Dutch: moedjahedien (nl) m or f
• Estonian: džihadist, mudžahiid, pühasõdalane
• Finnish: jihadisti (fi)
• French: moudjahid (fr) m, mujâhid m, djihadiste (fr) m or f, jihadiste (fr) m or f
• German: Dschihadist (de) m, Dschihadistin (de) f), Mudschahed (de) m, Gotteskrieger (de) m, Gotteskriegerin f
• Hebrew: מוג'אהדין pl
• Hindi: मुजाहिद (hi) m (mujāhid), जिहादी m (jihādī)
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• Irish: jiohádach m
• Italian: jihadista m or f
• Japanese: ムジャーヒディーン (mujāhidīn), ムジャーヒド (mujāhido)
• Korean: 무자헤딘 (mujahedin), 무자히드 (mujahideu)
• Macedonian: џихадист m (džihadist), џихадистка f (džihadistka)
• Persian: مجاهد (fa) (mojâhed)
• Polish: dżihadysta (pl) m, dżihadystka f
• Portuguese: jihadista (pt) m or f, jihadi m or f
• Russian: моджахе́д (ru) m (modžaxéd), душма́н (ru) m (dušmán), басма́ч (ru) m (basmáč) (Central Asia during 1917-26)
• Serbo-Croatian: муџахѐдӣн m, mudžahèdīn (sh) m
• Spanish: muyahid (es) m, yihadista (es) m
• Swedish: jihadist c, mujahid (sv) c
• Ukrainian: моджахе́д m (modžaxéd)
• Urdu: مجاهد m (mujāhid)

Adjective

jihadist (comparative more jihadist, superlative most jihadist)

1. Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism, which advocates armed jihad.

Translations

pertaining to the doctrine of jihadism

• Arabic: جهاديّ m, جِهَادِيَّة f (jihādiyya)
• Finnish: jihadistinen (fi)
• German: dschihadistisch (de), jihadistisch (de)
• Hindi: जिहादी m (jihādī)
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• Irish: jiohádach
• Swedish: jihadistisk

Anagrams

• ijtihads