shaheed

• shahed, shahid

From Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd, “martyr, witness”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈhiːd/

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shaheed (plural shaheeds)

1. An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
   • 2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.

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