Usually means: Struggle or fight against sin.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. jihad: Merriam-Webster
  2. jihad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jihad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jihad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jihad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jihad, jihad: Wordnik
  7. jihad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jihad: Wiktionary
  9. jihad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jihad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jihad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jihad: Dictionary.com
  13. jihad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Jihad (EP), Jihad (Points of Order), Jihad (name), Jihad (song), Jihad, The Jihad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. jihad: Rhymezone
  16. jihad: FreeDictionary.org
  17. jihad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. jihad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. jihad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jihad: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Arab Gateway Quick Reference Glossary (external links) (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  4. jihad: A Word A Day
  5. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)
  6. jihad: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Islamic Terms and Concepts (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jihad (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. The Jihad, jihad: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jihading as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jihad)

▸ noun:  (Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
▸ noun:  (Islam, theology) A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil.
▸ noun:  (by extension) An aggressive campaign for an idea.
▸ verb:  To participate in a jihad.

Similar:
jehad, jihadization, djehad, jihadist, jihadisation, jihadism, mujahid, jehadism, jehadist, jihadi, more...

Opposite:
peace, nonviolence, pacifism

Types:
jihad by the sword, jihad by the tongue, jihad by the heart, jihad by the hand, jihad by the pen, more...

Phrases:
islamic jihad, international jihad, palestinian islamic jihad, al jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, more...

Adjectives:
islamic, global, afghan, greater, lesser, fulani, defensive, violent, armed, military, soviet


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Similar:
jehad, jihadization, djehad, jihadist, jihadisation, jihadism, mujahid, jehadism, jehadist, jihadi, more...

Opposite:
peace, nonviolence, pacifism

Types:
jihad by the sword, jihad by the tongue, jihad by the heart, jihad by the hand, jihad by the pen, more...

Phrases:
islamic jihad, international jihad, palestinian islamic jihad, al jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, laskar jihad, palestine islamic jihad, harakat al jihad al islami al filastini, harakat ul jihad i islami, more...

Adjectives:
islamic, global, afghan, greater, lesser, fulani, defensive, violent, armed, military, soviet



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