tanzim

1. 1.

   a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership

   SynonymsFatah Tanzim

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Israel · terrorism

Other forms of tanzim

plural

tanzims·

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.

Questions about tanzim

What does tanzim mean?

tanzim means "a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership".

How many syllables are in tanzim?

tanzim has 2 syllables: tan-zim. The stress falls on "tan".

What is another word for tanzim?

Close synonyms include Fatah Tanzim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tanzim a common word?

tanzim 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.