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Shiist

Shiist noun: a practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.

Noun

Shiist (plural Shiists)

  1. A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.
    • ... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.1974, Afro-Asian Writings, numbers 19-27, page 135
    • The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet

Forms of Shiist

pluralShiists

Questions about Shiist

What does Shiist mean?
Shiist means a practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.
What part of speech is Shiist?
Shiist is a noun.
What is the plural of Shiist?
The plural of Shiist is Shiists.

Words near Shiist in the dictionary

  1. Shiification
  2. shiiit
  3. shiikuwasha
  4. shiikuwashas
  5. Shiism
  6. Shiist
  7. Shiistic
  8. Shiists
  9. shiitake
  10. shiitakes
  11. Shiite

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