Yazidi
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A member of a religious minority in northern Iraq who speaks Kurdish
- proper noun
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yezidí
- The Yazidi community in northern Iraq has faced significant challenges over the years, yet they continue to preserve their unique culture.
Examples
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CHART 1: Female Hands-on Killers and Conspirator-Accomplices #1. Victims and perpetrators who were not Muslim were Sikh, Hindu, or Yazidi.
Academic text (2015) -
Many Yazidi people have been displaced from their homes due to conflict, but they actively work to rebuild their lives.
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So Christians, Yazidi, Shahbucks, others generally lived in pretty peaceful conditions.
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A Yazidi festival celebrated the arrival of spring with vibrant traditions and communal gatherings in their ancestral lands.
Surface Forms
Yazidi main
Etymology
Yazidi comes from the Kurdish Êzidî and may trace back to the name Yazid or Persian Yazdan meaning 'God'. So a Yazidi is a member of this Kurdish-speaking religious minority.