English Explanatory Dictionary

fedayee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

fedayee fedayees fedayeen

Etymology

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

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