pesh merga

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   a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan

   Broaderguerrilla force

Questions about pesh merga

What does pesh merga mean?

pesh merga means "a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan".

Is pesh merga a common word?

pesh merga is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.