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8 letters · 19 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a Muslim who is involved in a jihad

originFrom jihad + -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".http://books.google.ch/books?id=LZ1VAAAAYAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=CHXKTaC3NMnJsgaKj72pAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the…

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