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English
Noun
holy war (plural holy wars)
- A war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.
- Hyponyms: Crusade, jihad
The conflict is beginning to look like a holy war between Sunnis and Shias.
- (computing, Usenet) A long-running and acrimonious debate or flame war over personal preferences in technical matters, such as the choice between little-endian and big-endian representation.
- (Utah) The rivalry between the sports teams of Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
Translations
- Albanian: luftë e shenjtë
- Arabic: حَرْب مُقَدَّسَة f (ḥarb muqaddasa)
- Armenian: սրբազան պատերազմ (hy) (srbazan paterazm)
- Belarusian: свята́я вайна́ f (svjatája vajná)
- Bulgarian: свеще́на война́ f (svešténa vojná)
- Chechen: гӏазот (ğazot)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 宗教戰爭 / 宗教战争 (zōngjiào zhànzhēng), 聖戰 / 圣战 (zh) (shèngzhàn)
- Danish: hellig krig c
- Dutch: heilige oorlog m
- Finnish: pyhä sota (fi)
- French: guerre sainte (fr) f
- Georgian: ჯიჰადი (ǯihadi), წმინდა ომი (c̣minda omi)
- German: heiliger Krieg m
- Greek: ιερός πόλεμος m (ierós pólemos)
- Hebrew: (jihad) ג'יהאד, מלחמת קודש
- Hungarian: szent háború
- Indonesian: jihad (id)
- Italian: guerra santa f
- Japanese: 聖戦 (ja) (せいせん, seisen)
- Korean: 성전(聖戰) (seongjeon)
- Malay: perang suci, perang agama, perang sabil
- Persian: جهاد (fa) (jahâd)
- Polish: święta wojna (pl) f
- Portuguese: guerra sagrada f, guerra santa f
- Romanian: război sfânt n
- Russian: свяще́нная война́ f (svjaščénnaja vojná)
- Spanish: guerra santa f
- Swedish: heligt krig c
- Tagalog: banal na digmaan
- Turkish: din savaşı, cihat (tr), kutsal savaş (literal, calque)
- Ukrainian: свяще́нна війна́ f (svjaščénna vijná)
- Yiddish: הייליק מלחמה f (heylik milkhama)
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