sumud

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English

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Etymology

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From Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, steadfastness; firmness, resistance).

Noun

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sumud (uncountable)

  1. Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance to colonization, arrest, etc by Israel.
    • 2019 September 16, Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee, Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is
       a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, [] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle [] Sumud embodies a radical alterity [] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to interrogators []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sumud.

See also

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  • sisu (similar Finnish concept)

Estonian

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Noun

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sumud

  1. nominative plural of sumu