جهاد

See also: جہاد

Arabic

Root
ج ه د (j-h-d)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.haːd/

Noun

جِهَاد • (jihād) m (uncountable)

  1. verbal noun of جَاهَدَ (jāhada) (form III)
  2. struggle, effort
    Synonyms: نِضَال (niḍāl), كِفَاح (kifāḥ)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:52:
      فَلَا تُطِعِ الْكَافِرِينَ وَجَاهِدْهُم بِهِ جِهَادًا كَبِيرًا
      fa-lā tuṭiʕi l-kāfirīna wa-jāhidhum bihi jihādan kabīran
      So do not obey the faithless, but wage with it [the Revelation] a great struggle against them.
  3. religious struggle
Declension
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒa.haːd/

Noun

جَهَاد • (jahād) m (plural جُهُد (juhud))

  1. flat land; rugged, hard land
  2. desert
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صحراء
Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).

Noun

جهاد • (cihad)

  1. jihad, holy war, crusade
  2. fight, struggle, battle

Descendants

  • Turkish: cihat

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِهَاد (jihād).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒe̞.ɦɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d͡ʒi.jɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d͡ʒi.jɔ́ːd̪̥]

Readings
Classical reading? jihāḏ
Dari reading? jehād
Iranian reading? jehâd
Tajik reading? jihod

Noun

Dari جهاد
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷиҳод

جِهاد • (jehâd)

  1. (Islam) jihad, holy war, crusade
  2. fight, struggle, battle
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