fedayeen in English

noun
1
Arab guerrillas operating especially in Israel and Palestine against the Israeli government, and in Iraq against the occupying coalition forces during and after the Second Gulf War.
He had a firefight with the fedayeen and some of them got killed.

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1. Play media The group's name is derived from the Black September conflict which began on 16 September 1970, when King Hussein of Jordan declared military rule in response to fedayeen attempting to seize his kingdom — resulting in the deaths and expulsion of thousands of Palestinians fighters from Jordan.