jihadi/d͡ʒɪˈhɑːdi/EtymologyFrom jihad + -i, after Arabic جِهَادِيّ (jihādiyy). Both the noun and the adjective are in occasional use since the 1960s.jihadi means pertaining to jihad or jihadism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.adjpertaining to jihad or jihadism“What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Ira”nounA jihadist.