Yazidi
/jəˈziːdiː/(also Yezidi)
noun (plural same or Yazidis, Yezidis)
A member of a Kurdish-speaking people living chiefly in Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Georgia and adhering to an ancient monotheistic religion: many Yazidis have recently moved to villages further west Karim is a Yazidi, a member of an ancient religious minority...
- "I still don't know what happened to him," said Shamu, a 30-year-old Yazidi.
- "There needs to be a place for the Christians, the Yazidis, the Assyrians and many, many others," he said.
- The strongest punishment among Yazidis is expulsion, which means that your soul is lost forever.
adjective
Denoting or relating to the Yazidi: a Yazidi village the Yezidi religion...
- There are other Yazidi communities in Europe, Russia, Syria and Turkey.
- The remaining people are divided into several ethnic groups, including Assyrian, Turkoman, Chaldean, Armenian, Yazidi, and Jewish.
- He travelled in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, including the Yazidi region of Jabal Sinjar in the north-west, producing over 1,200 photographs.
Derivatives
Yazidism
Origin
Ottoman Turkish Yezidi and Persian Yazīdī, probably from the name of Yazīd b. Mu‘āwiya (644–83), the second caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, who is venerated by Yazidis as a founding figure of the religion.