shaheed

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See also: Shaheed and Shahed

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Etymology

From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).

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Noun

shaheed (plural shaheeds)

  1. An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
    • 2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times‎:
      She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.

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