ghazi

From Arabic غَازٍ (ḡāzī, “raider, holy warrior”), from the active participle of غَزَا (ḡazā, “to raid”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːzi/

ghazi (plural ghazis or ghazies)

1. A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., , published 1892, →OCLC:

     I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 351:

     Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.

   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M Göknar:

     On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.

   • 2010, Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 232:

     The 14th century also witnessed Ottoman campaigns against fellow Turks and Muslims […] In accordance with their portrayal of the early Ottomans as ghazi-warriors, 15th-century Ottoman chroniclers often ignored these conflicts (along with the Ottomans' alliances with Christians), claiming that the Ottomans acquired the territories of the neighboring Turkic principalities through peaceful means (purchase and/or marriage).

• ghazism

• Gizah

Borrowed from Arabic غَازٍ (ḡāzin).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zi/

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ghazi m (plural ghazis)

1. ghazi (Muslim warrior)