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mujahideen

Mujāhid is 'one who strives': it is from the same root as jihad, 'effort, struggle'. Its plural mujāhidīn entered English in the 1950s and became familiar through the Afghan war of the 1980s.

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The road to English

From Arabic to Persian, Russian

From Arabic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

630 CEArabic

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