ghazi

American  

[gah-zee] / ˈgɑ zi /

noun

plural

ghazis

1. a Muslim soldier, especially one fighting against non-Muslims.

2. (initial capital letter) a title given in Turkey to a victorious sultan, general, etc.

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ghazi British  

/ ˈɡɑːzɪ /

noun

1. a Muslim fighter against infidels

2. (often capital) a Turkish warrior of high rank

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Etymology

Origin of ghazi

First recorded in 1745–55, ghazi is from the Arabic word ghāzī

Example Sentences

Their advance was made steadily and in perfect silence, without a shout or a word of any kind, unlike the yelling charge of the Afghan ghazi.

From The Story of the Guides by Younghusband, G. J.

The small inscription at the side reads "el ghazi," the victorious, one of the titles of the Sultan.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.

Yet, but for the mission school, Muzaffar Khan might have been the ghazi himself.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)

Yet the man they miscall ghazi sought but the key to Khinjan Caves, with no thought at all about Heaven!

From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot

Then from a service point of view, and as a matter of caste, Barlow went ghazi.

From Caste by Fraser, William Alexander