fedayee
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy), plural: فِدائِيُّون (fidāʔiyyūn). Plural in oblique cases or colloquial/dialectal in all cases is فِدائِيِّين (fidāʔiyyīn).
Noun
[edit]fedayee (plural fedayees or fedayeen)
- An Arab guerrilla or commando.
- (history) fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries