Home › Words › H › houthihouthi/ˈhuːθi/houthi means A member of the Ansar Allah armed revolutionary group in Yemen.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, houthi ranks #31,464 of 42,752 for Qualifying.houthi is pronounced /ˈhuːθi/.EtymologyFrom Arabic الْحُوثِيّ (al-ḥūṯiyy). Named after Yemeni politician and rebel Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi. ultimately from the village of حُوث (ḥūṯ) in western central Yemen.nounA member of the Ansar Allah armed revolutionary group in Yemen.e.g.“Late on Tuesday, the Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a container ship in the Red Sea, and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones.” — 2023 December 26, Bethan McKernan, “Fears of regional escalation as Israel warns of ‘multi-front’ war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).