Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also mujahideen, 1958, in a Pakistani context, from Persian and Arabic, plural of mujahid "one who fights in a jihad" (q.v.); in modern use, "Muslim guerilla insurgent."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of mujahideen nodot=1 English); (plural of mujahid nocap=1 English)
WordNet
n. a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad; "some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists" [syn: mujahedin, mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahideen, mujahadein]
Usage examples of "mujahidin".
He had not only been Khomeini’s chief bodyguard, but he also helped create from scratch the Revolutionary Guards that brutally crushed secular moderates and the leftist Mujahidin Khalq (People’s Holy Warriors), among other “enemies” of the Islamic Revolution.
The Northwest Frontier province was now a haven for arms dealers and disillusioned mujahidin (holy warriors) from the Afghan war.