fedayee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

fedayee (plural fedayees or fedayeen)

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

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