WAHABI (wahhabis)

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Irregular inflected form: wahhabis   

• WAHABI (noun)
  The noun WAHABI has 1 sense:

1. a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam

  Familiarity information: WAHABI used as a noun is very rare.

• WAHABI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Wahabi; Wahhabi

Context example:

Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim

Hypernyms ("Wahabi" is a kind of...):

Moslem; Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)