shaheed

Alternative forms

• shahid

Etymology

From Arabic شَهِيد‎ (šahīd), literally "witness".

Noun

shaheed (plural shaheeds)

1. An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
   • 2007 January 16, Joan Dupont, “For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger”, in New York Times‎:

     She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception.