Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Synonym of Shiite.
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryShi'a Islam. · The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites.
From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”).
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