ghazi

Noun

1. A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
   • I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British...
   • Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions. - 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The...
   • On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes. - 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr....