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English
Etymology
From Algerian Arabic جُندِي.
Noun
djoundi (plural djounoud)
- (historical) An Algerian Muslim soldier fighting for independence during the Algerian War.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 84:Enlistment of the first F.L.N. djounoud, however, proceeded slowly […]
2012, David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Biography:Frantz Fanon had been dead for six months when Kahn visited Ghardimaou, and it is possible that some of the djounoud he met there had been part of the honour guard that saluted Fanon's body […]
2004, Anouar Benmalek, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, The Lovers of Algeria, page 15:The djoundi with the fat red moustache grunts: "You heard, shepherd: what are you doing here?"
French
Noun
djoundi m (plural djounoud)
- djoundi
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