ghazi
Americannoun
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ghazis
plural
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a Muslim soldier, especially one fighting against non-Muslims.
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(initial capital letter) a title given in Turkey to a victorious sultan, general, etc.
noun
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a Muslim fighter against infidels
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(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
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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 Talbot Mundy
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 T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
Then from a service point of view, and as a matter of caste, Barlow went ghazi.
From Caste by William Alexander Fraser
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 John N. Luff
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 G. J. Younghusband
Like the Seljuks, they regarded themselves as ghazis, warriors who fought to expand and protect the borders and influence of Islam, and this recognition came to form an important part of Ottoman Turkish identity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Hearing that 2000 of the enemy's horsemen and a large number of ghazis had hurried forward in advance of the main body to Maiwand, he determined to attack them there.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
The 28th Punjab Infantry were the first to open fire; then the Guides, the 67th, and 92nd, each in their turn, greeted by their volleys the ghazis who approached close to the walls.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Burrows's troops followed, and shortly after 9 a.m., their disposition being completed, Captain Hornsby opened fire upon the kotal, which was one mass of ghazis.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
On Monday night the villages on the east and south were abandoned by their mixed garrisons of ghazis and regulars.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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