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Fedayeen ( fidāʼīyīn ; ) is a term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice themselves.
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n. (plural of fedayee English)
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
partisans or irregulars in the Middle East, from Arabic plural of fedai "devotee, zealot, one who risks life for a cause," from Persian fidai .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fedayee \fedayee\ n.; pl. fedayeen . [(1950-1955). Ar. fid[=a]'[imac], one who sacrifices himself.] a member of an Arab paramilitary organization, predominantly Palestinian, which performs commando raids, especially against Israel or Israeli targets. ...
Usage examples of fedayeen.
He denigrated the Fedayeen as little more than a speed bump on the way to Baghdad and never appreciated their resilience and determination.
He had not anticipated that the Saddam Fedayeen would turn the town into a stronghold, and he had not known that the CIA had operatives in the city.
But the Iraqi paramilitary Fedayeen quickly occupied Zubayr and treated the British who followed the Marines to a hail of rocket and machine gun fire whenever they approached the town.
Marines stepped up their fight against the Fedayeen and blunted the paramilitary attacks along the lengthening supply lines.
SOF and CIA paramilitary units should be able to tie up the Fedayeen, freeing conventional Army and Marine forces for the push north.
But it would be the paramilitary Fedayeen that represented the principal challenge in Nasiriyah, Samawah, Najaf, Kifl, and Diwaniyah, and that fought tenaciously in Baghdad as well.
Grimsley thought that the unanticipated battle they had just fought against a mix of Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen might, in retrospect, turn out to be one of the major battles of the war.
They flitted over Ismaili fedayeen bent on murder and utterly careless of life.
Jibril knew that Nadir was one of the most effective black ops specialists in all of Saddam's fedayeen forces, and one of the most fearsome killers on the face of the planet.