fedayee

== English == === Etymology === From Arabic فِدائِيّ (fidāʔiyy), plural: فِدائِيُّون (fidāʔiyyūn). Plural in oblique cases or colloquial/dialectal in all cases is فِدائِيِّين (fidāʔiyyīn). === Noun === fedayee (plural fedayees or fedayeen) An Arab guerrilla or commando. (historical) A fedayi, an Armenian partisan fighter in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. === References === thefreedictionary.com