- mujahidin
- mujahidin (n.) also mujahideen, 1958, in a Pakistani context, from Persian and Arabic, plural of mujahid "one who fights in a JIHAD (Cf. jihad)" (q.v.); in modern use, "Muslim guerilla insurgent."
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