Yez·i·di 
(yĕzĭ-dē′) also Ya·zi·di (yäzĭ-)
(yĕzĭ-dē′) also Ya·zi·di (yäzĭ-)n. pl. Yezidi or Ye·zi·dis also Yazidi or Ya·zi·dis
A member of a Kurdish-speaking group who practice Yezidism and live predominantly in Iraq, Syria, and southeast Turkey.
[Arabic Yazīdī and Kurdish Êzîdî, probably after the second Umayyad caliph Yazīd ibn Mu'awīya (645-683), revered by Yezidis as an important propagator of Yezidism.]