jihadist

English

Etymology

jihad +‎ -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid". The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s..

Noun

jihadist (plural jihadists)

One who participates in a jihad; a mujahid.

Synonyms

mujahid, jihadi, takfiri

Translations

one who participates in a jihad

Arabic: مُجَاهِد‎ m (mujāhid)
Bulgarian: муджахидин m (mudžahidin)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聖戰者, 圣战者 (shèngzhànzhě), 聖戰士, 圣战士 (shèngzhànshì), 奮戰者, 奋战者 (fènzhànzhě) (a number of other translations exist with a 圣战 "holy war" part)
Czech: džihádista (cs) m
Dutch: moedjahedien m or f
Estonian: džihadist, mudžahiid, pühasõdalane
Finnish: jihadisti (fi)
French: moudjahid (fr) m, mujâhid m, djihadiste (fr) m or f, jihadiste (fr) m or f
German: Dschihadist (de) m, Dschihadistin (de) f), Mudschahed (de) m, Gotteskrieger (de) m, Gotteskriegerin f
Hebrew: מוג'אהדין‎ pl
Hindi: मुजाहिद (hi) m (mujāhid)
Irish: jiohádach m

Italian: jihadista m or f
Japanese: ムジャーヒディーン (mujāhidīn), ムジャーヒド (mujāhido)
Korean: 무자헤딘 (mujahedin), 무자히드 (mujahideu)
Persian: مجاهد‎ (fa) (mojāhed)
Polish: mudżahedin (pl) m
Portuguese: jihadista (pt) m or f, jihadi m or f
Russian: моджахе́д (ru) m (modžaxéd), душма́н (ru) m (dušmán), басма́ч (ru) m (basmáč) (Central Asia during 1917-26)
Serbo-Croatian: муџахѐдӣн m, mudžahèdīn (sh) m
Spanish: muyahid (es) m, yihadista (es) m
Swedish: jihadist c, mujahid (sv) c
Ukrainian: моджахед m (modžaxéd)
Urdu: مجاهد‎ m (mujāhid)

Adjective

jihadist (comparative more jihadist, superlative most jihadist)

Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism.

Translations

pertaining to the doctrine of jihadism

Arabic: جهاديّ‎ m, جِهَادِيَّة‎ f (jihādiyya)
German: dschihadistisch (de), jihadistisch (de)

Irish: jiohádach
Swedish: jihadistisk

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