jihadist

Meanings

Noun

• One who participates in a jihad, an Islamic holy war or conflict; a mujahid.
• An adherent of jihadism.
• One who is militant for their religion (or irreligion).

Adjective

• Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism, which advocates armed jihad.

Related

Similar words

• mujahid, jihadi, takfiri

Origin

• jihad + -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".
• The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s..