Yazidi

or Ye·zi·di

[ yuh-zee-dee ]

noun

1. a member of a religious sect living mostly in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, Syria, Armenia, and Georgia, whose beliefs are based partly on Zoroastrianism and Sufism.

Other Words From

• Ya·zidism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yazidi¹

Of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

In numerous Yazidi villages, the population was rounded up.

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Some of the Yazidi girls and women who later escaped from captivity described being openly sold or handed over into sexual slavery as "gifts" to IS members.

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A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials from Israel, the US and Iraq said.

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In 2014 the Islamic State group overran the Yazidi community in Sinjar in northern Iraq, massacring thousands of men, and enslaving girls and women.

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In August 2014, IS militants swept through Iraq's north-western Sinjar region, which is the homeland of the Yazidi religious minority.

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