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Akhwan

Akhwan is the alternative form of Ikhwan.

Meaning of Ikhwan

Noun

Ikhwan pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A Wahhabi religious militia of the early 20th century, made up of traditionally nomadic tribesmen, which formed a significant military force of the ruler Ibn Saud and played an important role in establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928.

Questions about Akhwan

What is Akhwan the alternative form of?
Akhwan is the alternative form of Ikhwan.

Words near Akhwan in the dictionary

  1. akhunds
  2. Akhurian
  3. Akhuriyan
  4. Akhuryan
  5. Akhvakh
  6. Akhwan
  7. akhyana
  8. akhyanas
  9. AKI
  10. akialoa
  11. akialoas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Akhwan (page history and authors); Ikhwan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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