English
Noun
holy war (plural holy wars)
- A war that is entirely, primarily, or ostensibly religious in motivation; a war over religion.
- The conflict is beginning to look like a holy war between Sunnis and Shias.
Synonyms
- (war over religion): jihad
Translations
primarily religious war
- Albanian: luftë e shenjtë
- Arabic: جِهَاد m (jihād), حَرْب مُقَدَّسَة f (ḥarb muqaddasa)
- Bulgarian: свещена война f (sveštena vojna)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 宗教戰爭, 宗教战争 (zōngjiào zhànzhēng), 聖戰 (zh), 圣战 (zh) (shèngzhàn)
- Finnish: pyhä sota
- French: guerre sainte (fr) f
- Georgian: ჯიჰადი (ǯihadi), წმინდა ომი (c̣minda omi)
- German: heiliger Krieg m
- Greek: ιερός πόλεμος m (ierós pólemos)
- Hebrew: (jihad) ג'יהאד, מלחמת קודש
- Hungarian: szent háború
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- Indonesian: jihad (id)
- Italian: guerra santa f
- Japanese: 聖戦 (せいせん, seisen)
- Malay: perang suci, perang agama, perang sabil
- Persian: جهاد (fa) (jehād)
- Portuguese: guerra sagrada f, guerra santa f
- Russian: свяще́нная война́ f (svjaščénnaja vojná)
- Spanish: guerra santa f
- Swedish: heligt krig
- Turkish: din savaşı, cihat (tr), kutsal savaş (literal, calque)
- Yiddish: הייליק מלחמה f (heylik milkhama)
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