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fedayi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fe-dayi
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic فِداء (fidāʔ) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy)der. Armenian ֆիդայի (fidayi)bor. English fedayi Borrowed from Armenian ֆիդայի (fidayi).

Inflected Forms

fedayis (plural) fedayeen (plural) fedayin (plural) fedayee (alternative)

Questions

What does fedayi mean?
An Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Where does fedayi come from?
Etymology tree Arabic فِداء (fidāʔ) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy)der. Armenian ֆիդայի (fidayi)bor. English fedayi Borrowed from Armenian ֆիդայի (fidayi).

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