fedayee

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English

Etymology

From Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy), plural: فِدائِيُّون (fidāʔiyyūn). Plural in oblique cases or colloquial/dialectal in all cases is فِدائِيِّين (fidāʔiyyīn).

Noun

fedayee (plural fedayees or fedayeen)

  1. An Arab guerrilla or commando.
  2. (history) fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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