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jihad | jihadic |

As a noun jihad

is a holy war undertaken by muslims.

As a verb jihad

is to participate in a jihad.

As an adjective jihadic is

of or pertaining to jihad (muslim holy war).

jihad

English

(wikipedia jihad)

Alternative forms

* jehad

Noun

(en noun) ("jihad on Wikiquote")
  • A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
  • * 1938 , "Holy War", Time , 22 Aug 1938:
    • Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad .
  • * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 26:
    • Small groups of killers, the scent of blood in their nostrils, now fanned out by taxi, bicycle or even on horseback into the surrounding countryside, spreading the word that a general jihad , or ‘holy war’, had broken out.
  • * 2013 , Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian , 8 May 2013:
    • The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.
  • An aggressive campaign for an idea.
  • a personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil
    • (-)

    Verb

    (jihad)
  • To participate in a jihad

    • See also

    * Crusade * holy war * infidel

    Anagrams

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    jihadic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to jihad (Muslim holy war).
  • * 2005 , William H. Thornton, New world empire: civil Islam, terrorism, and the making of neoglobalism (page 4)
    • Kepel, however, refuses to surrender his belief that the jihadic firestorm reached its zenith long before, with the Soviet expulsion from Afghanistan in 1989.