English Words from Arabic
assassin
الحَشّاشُون
ḥashshāshīn
A name for the Nizaris, an Ismaili Batini sect in Persia and Syria that Sunni scholars such as al-Ghazali and al-Baghdadi held to be outside Islam, and that murdered its Muslim opponents. Merriam-Webster glosses ḥashshāsh as 'worthless person'.
- Meaning in Arabic
- hashish users (a term of abuse)
- Arabic today says
- الاغْتِيال، والقاتِلُ غِيلَة
The path between languagesḥashshāshīn → assassinus → assassin
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