Alawi
noun
Ala·wi ˈä-lə-wē 
ˈä-lä-
variants or less commonly Alawite
ˌa-lə-ˈwēt
: a member of a religious sect living mainly in Syria that originated in Shiite Islam but separated from other Shiite groups in the ninth and tenth centuries
Word History
Etymology
Arabic ʽalawī, from the caliph ʽAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, central figure in Shia Islam
First Known Use
1869, in the meaning defined above
- gets cracking
- gets down
- gets down (to)
- gets down to
- gets even
- gets even (for)
- gets even for
- gets going
- gets hold of
- gets in
- gets in touch with
- gets off
- gets off (on)
- gets off on
- gets on
- gets on (to)
- gets on one's nerves
- gets on to
- gets one's act together
- gets one's goat
- gets out
- gets round
- gets round (to)
- gets round to
- gets short of breath