fedai

From Persian فدائی‎ (fedâ'i, “someone who risks their life for a cause”), and its source, Arabic فِدَائِيّ‎ (fidāʔiyy). Doublet of fedayee.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɛdʌɪˈiː/

fedai (plural fedai or fedais)

1. (now historical) An Ismaili Muslim assassin; also (later), a killer in the same tradition. [from 18th c.]
2. (rare) A member of the fedayeen; a dedicated guerrilla fighter. [from 20th c.]
   • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 16:

     Enver […] received other Young Turk fedaî officers at his base camp in Ayn al-Mansur.

• IPA^(key): /feˈdaj/
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: fe‧dài

fedai

1. first-person singular past historic of fedare

• afide, faide, fieda