Sadrist
- noun
- There was a funny discussion with the leaders of the Sadrists when I told them.
Examples
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If it can be done without amending the constitution, why don't Iraqiya, the Kurds, and the Sadrists join to pass a law limiting anyone from serving more than two terms as PM?
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The other point is that the Sadrists, in general, do not have good financial support.
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And we first had to talk to the Sadrists in the areas.
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The Sadrists are in retreat now, but the doctors are still missing.
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Like the Sadrists, the Kurds offer a limited alternative to the political process but do not seek its breakdown.
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It is unclear whether the Sadrists would want to monopolize the government.
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He tried to marginalize the Sadrists; he failed miserably.
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Like Hizbullah or the Sadrists in Iraq, Hamas combines the ethnic nationalism of a separatist movement with the absolutist beliefs of revolutionary Islam.
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These groups would not be enthusiastic: two of the main UIA factions—the Dawa Party and the Sadrists—still want a unitary Iraq.
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The Sadrists organized a large protest in Baghdad to voice their demands for government reform.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Sadrist = Sadr (transparent) = Sadr + ist
Formed by attaching the common suffix '-ist' to the proper name 'Sadr' to denote a follower or supporter; the morphological process is regular.
Etymology
A Sadrist comes from the name Sadr plus the ending -ist, meaning 'supporter' or 'follower', just like a socialist is a supporter of socialism. So a Sadrist is a person who supports Muqtada al-Sadr or belongs to his movement.