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gazi

gazi is the alternative form of ghazi.

Meaning of ghazi

Noun

ghazi (plural ghazis or ghazies)

  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 lines.1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […])...

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Proper noun capitalized: Gazi

Gazi

  1. A village in Kenya.

Forms of gazi

pluralgazis

Questions about gazi

What does gazi mean?
Gazi means a village in Kenya.
What is gazi the alternative form of?
Gazi is the alternative form of ghazi.
What part of speech is gazi?
Gazi is a proper noun.

Words near gazi in the dictionary

  1. gazetting
  2. gazettings
  3. gazettist
  4. gazettists
  5. gazettment
  6. gazi
  7. Gaziantep
  8. gazid
  9. gazids
  10. gazillion
  11. gazillionaire

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gazi (page history and authors); Gazi (page history and authors); ghazi (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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