Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a title and form of address for a male dignitary.
- noun Used as a title for a descendant of the family of Muhammad.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The 39-year-old Sadr City native talked to NEWSWEEK at his home several times last week about the leader he calls the sayyid (an honorific signifying a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad).
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"We should not fear introducing people to other ideas," said Sayyid Bahar al-Uloom, whose title sayyid is for those who trace their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
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"We should not fear introducing people to other ideas," said Sayyid Bahar al-Uloom, whose title sayyid is for those who trace their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
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"We should not fear introducing people to other ideas," says Bahar al-Uloom, whose title sayyid is for those who trace their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
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"We should not fear introducing people to other ideas," said Sayyid Bahar al-Uloom, whose title sayyid is for those who trace their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
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"We should not fear introducing people to other ideas," says Bahar al-Uloom, whose title sayyid is for those who trace their lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
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El Cid, whose name comes from the Arabic sayyid, meaning "lord," was a Spaniard who lived in the tumultuous age when Muslims, Jews and Christians all shared the Iberian peninsula.
David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time 2010
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El Cid, whose name comes from the Arabic sayyid, meaning "lord," was a Spaniard who lived in the tumultuous age when Muslims, Jews and Christians all shared the Iberian peninsula.
David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time 2010
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His nickname, for starters, is derived from the Arabic sayyid, meaning more-or-less "lord" (though he was of humble birth), and remains to this day a common honorific in the Arab world.
A Spanish Epic Retold Paul Freedman 2009
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The military's mere usage of "sayyid," -- an honorific reserved for descendents of the prophet Muhammad -- underscores the vastly different approach it is taking toward the man whose militia fought a series of brutal urban battles with coalition forces in 2004.
War and Cease 2008
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