jihadi

English

Etymology

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

Noun

jihadi (plural jihadis)

1. A jihadist.

Synonyms

• jihadist, mujahid

Adjective

jihadi (not comparable)

1. pertaining to jihad or jihadism
   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

References

• OED online (accessed 2011)

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد‎ (jihād).

Noun

jìhādī̀ m (possessed form jìhādìn)

1. (Islam) jihad (holy war)

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Portuguese

Noun

jihadi m, f (plural jihadis)

1. (Islam) mujahid; jihadist (a Muslim engaging in jihad)

Synonyms

• jihadista, mujahid