shaheed
noun/ʃəˈhiːd/
Etymology From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).
1
An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
- She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times: