ghd / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ghd: jihad, mujahid.

ghd

Arabic root, to strive.

1. jihad, from Arabic jihād, battle, holy war, from jahada, to strive (sense probably influenced by derived stem jāhada, to fight).
2. mujahid, from Arabic mujāhidīn, plural of mujāhid, fighter, one who fights in a jihad, active participle of jāhada, to fight, derived stem from jahada, to strive.

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