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Hezbollah|hɛzbəˈlɑː|
Also Hizbollah, -bullah.
[a. Pers. ḥezbollāh, Arab. ḥizbullāh Party of God, f. ḥezb, ḥizb party + allāh Allah.]
The name of an extreme Shiite Muslim group, esp. in the Lebanon (see quot. 19862). Also Hezboˈllahi, a member or adherent of this group.
1960C. Geertz Relig. Java xi. 145 Hizbullah, a guerilla batallion [sic] of young men, grew out of a similarly named organization formed by the Japanese to give training in military drill to young Moslems... Hizbullah was Indonesia-wide. 1981Times 10 June 8/1 Large bands of ‘Hesbollahis’, or followers of the Party of God, charged at them with an assortment of weapons. 1985Listener 2 May 3/3 Amal felt itself unable to side with Israel lest it be outflanked by its fast-growing and more extreme rival, the pro-Khomeini Hezbollah. 1985Guardian 11 July 7/7 The radical Iranian-backed Hizbullah group. 1986Daily Tel. 23 July 17/8 The southern suburbs [of Beirut]..remain exclusively controlled by the pro-Iranian Hizbollah (party of God) militia which is totally opposed to the Syrian move. 1986Lebanon News 31 Oct. 5/1 One could trace the origins of Hezbollah to a meeting in the Iraqi city of Najef in 1969 where the idea of a Moslem revolution in Lebanon was first advanced. |