Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Muslim who has successfully fought against non-Muslims.
- noun Used as a title for such a warrior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A veteran soldier of Islam; especially, a title given in Turkey to sovereigns or subjects renowned for wars with infidel forces.
- noun Among Mohammedans, a warrior, especially one who has been victorious over infidels; a popular ‘hero.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hero orchampion , especially as aMuslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yet the man they miscall ghazi sought but the key to Khinjan Caves, with no thought at all about Heaven!
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Yet the man they miscall ghazi sought but the key to Khinjan Caves, with no thought at all about Heaven!
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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Frequent '' ghazi '' (plural '' ghazawāt '') or raids on the Quraish by Muhammad and his followers over the years finally erupted into a full-blown Battle of Badr (624 AD), one of the few mentioned in the Qur'an.
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Frequent '' ghazi '' (plural '' ghazawāt '') or raids on the Quraish by Muhammad and his followers over the years finally erupted into a full-blown Battle of Badr (624 AD), one of the few mentioned in the Qur'an.
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[Footnote 321: "A ghazi is a man who, purely for the sake of his religion, kills an unbeliever, Kaffir, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, or
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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Dozens of Facebook groups extol him as, among other things, a ghazi religious warrior, "the new hero of Pakistan," and "the great soldier of Islam."
Confronting the Myth of 'Moderate Pakistan' Sadanand Dhume 2011
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Mahmud called his troops “ghazi,” warriors for the faith, and termed his campaign a “jihad” to defend orthodox Sunni observance against the heresy of Ismaili Shia.
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A ghazi — raid — one group of Bedouin carried off against another, that meant trampling two fields and killing a milch cow.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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A ghazi — raid — one group of Bedouin carried off against another, that meant trampling two fields and killing a milch cow.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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