different between ghazi vs ghazwa

English

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (??z?), active participle of ?????? (?az?, “raid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????zi/

Noun

ghazi (plural ghazis or ghazies)

1. A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:

     I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 351:

     Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.

   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erda? M Göknar:

     On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.

Translations

Derived terms

• ghazism

Anagrams

• Gizah

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (??z?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.zi/

Noun

ghazi m (plural ghazis)

1. ghazi (Muslim warrior)

English

Alternative forms

• ghazah

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?azwa). Doublet of razzia.

Noun

ghazwa (plural ghazwas or ghazwat or ghazawat)

1. (Islam, historical) Any of the battles in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad personally participated.
2. A battle or raid against non-Muslims for the expansion of Muslim territory and/or conversion of non-Muslims to Islam.

Related terms

• ghazi
• ghazw

Translations

See also

• siryah