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sumud

sumud noun: steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.

Noun

sumud (uncountable)

  1. Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.
    • Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is
    • a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, […] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle […] Sumud embodies a radical alterity […] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to...2019 September 16, Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee, Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin of sumud

From Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, “steadfastness; firmness, resistance”).

Words formed from sumud

  • Global Sumud Flotilla
  • GSF

Questions about sumud

What does sumud mean?
Sumud means steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.
What part of speech is sumud?
Sumud is a noun.

Words near sumud in the dictionary

  1. sumtotal
  2. sumtotals
  3. sumtree
  4. sumtrees
  5. sumu
  6. sumud
  7. sumus
  8. Sumwalt
  9. sumwer
  10. sumwhere
  11. sumxu

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