جاهد

جَاهَدَ • (jāhada) III (non-past يُجَاهِدُ (yujāhidu), verbal noun مُجَاهَدَة (mujāhada) or جِهَاد (jihād))

1. to endeavor, to strive
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 31:15:

     وَإِنْ جَاهَدَاكَ عَلَى أَنْ تُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعْهُمَا

     waʔin jāhadāka ʕalā ʔan tušrika bī mā laysa laka bihi ʕilmun falā tuṭiʕhumā

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2. to fight

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܓ̰ܲܚܸܕ (mjaḥḥid, “to argue”)

Derived from the active participle of جَهَدَ (jahada, “to strive, to toil”).

جَاهِد • (jāhid) (masculine plural أَجْهَاد (ʔajhād))

1. striving, labouring, toiling; being laborious, tedious, exerting

   جَهْدٌ جَاهِدٌ

   jahdun jāhidun

   a laborious labour, a severe difficulty or distress, etc.

• Lane, vol. I (1863), p. 474.

From Arabic جَاهِد (jāhid).

جاهد • (Cahid)

1. a male given name from Arabic

• Turkish: Cahit

From Arabic جَاهَدَ (jāhada).

• IPA^(key): /ʒaː.had/, ,

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جاهد • (jāhad) III (present بجاهد (bijāhed))

1. to strive, to struggle, to make an effort