shaheed

See also: Shaheed

English

Alternative forms

• shahed, shahid

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).

Noun

shaheed (plural shaheeds)

1. An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
   • 2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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

Translations

Islamic or Sikh martyr

• Azerbaijani: şəhid (az)
• Indonesian: syahid (id)
• Kazakh: шаһид (şahid), шейіт (şeiıt)
• Northern Kurdish: şehîd (ku)
• Russian: шахид (ru) m (šaxid)
• Serbo-Croatian: šehid
• Swahili: shahidi (sw)
• Turkish: şehit (tr)

See also

• hero
• kamikaze