Mujahid Definition

mo͝o-jähĭd
mujahideen, mujahidin
noun
One engaged in a jihad, especially as a guerrilla warrior.
American Heritage
One of the Muslim guerrilla warriors that resisted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s with the support of the United States and Pakistan.
American Heritage

Origin of Mujahid

  • Ultimately (partly via Persian) from Arabic mujāhid one who fights in a jihad active participle of jāhada to fight ghd in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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