jihad

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a holy war fought by Muslims against those who reject Islam

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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jihadEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus jihadEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is jihad a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, jihad is tagged as noun.

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