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say it: MAH-dee
mahdi is a noun meaning "(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion". It carries one recorded sense.
(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mahdi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.