fedayee

noun — 2 senses

fedayee

noun

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

1

An Arab guerrilla or commando.

2

Historical A fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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