fedayin
French, noun/fe.da.jin/
fedayin is spelled F-E-D-A-Y-I-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fedayin is a French masculine noun meaning “fedayeen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “À l’époque médiévale, membres de la célèbre secte des Assassins (nizârites)”.
What does fedayin mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefedayeen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. À l’époque médiévale, membres de la célèbre secte des Assassins (nizârites). 2. Membre de l’armée de lutte pour l’indépendance de l’Algérie. 3. Combattant palestinien engagé dans la lutte contre Israël.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de fedayin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fedayin
- fedayins plural
- fédayin
- fedayine
- feddayin
- feddayine
- fédayins plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fedayin?
- /fe.da.jin/
- \fe.da.jin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fedayin in French?
fedayin appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).