Definition of Ghazies

1. ghazi [n] - See also: ghazi

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghazies

ghat
ghatam
ghatams
ghats
ghatti
ghatti gum
ghaut
ghauts
ghawazee
ghawazees
ghazals
ghazel
ghazels
ghazi
ghazies (current term)
ghazis
ghazwa
gheada
ghee
ghees
gheimeh
gherao
gheraoed
gheraoes
gheraoing
gheraos
gherkins
ghess

Literary usage of Ghazies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1864)
"Also the defeat of a detachment of the Bombay army, by the bravery of the ghazies (Mussulman ... ghazies ..."

2. The History of the Reign of Tipú Sultán, Being a Continuation of the Neshani by Mir Hussain Ali Khan Kirmani, William Miles (1864)
"Also the defeat of a detachment of the Bombay army, by the bravery of the ghazies (Mussulman soldiers), and the establishment of peace between the Sultan ..."

3. Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-west by William Muir, William Coldstream (1902)
"50 ghazies. They are encamped near the staging bungalow at ... or 1177 Foot, 450 Horse, and some 400 ghazies, etc. His information was that the ..."

4. The United Service (1884)
"About nine o'clock the gate fell outwards, and then a party of ghazies climbed ... For three hours the ghazies renewed, at intervals, the assault upon the ..."

5. Annals of the Early Caliphate: From Original Sources by William Muir (1883)
"When Amru heard of it, he answered readily : ' And who fanatical part of the Moslem forces, answering to the ghazies of our own day. ..."

6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1893)
"Perhaps some of the three thousand ghazies who on that day dashed like an avalanche down the hillside on to the thin brown line guarding a mistaken retreat ..."

7. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1881)
"... in the final charge of the ghazies; and his little band of men was the last which made any stand against the enemy on the unfortunate 27th July. ..."

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