Used in a Sentence

dhimmi

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dhimmi.

Editorial note

Jews don't have to beg to be allowed to live as dhimmi or as a minority in Europe.

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Quick take

(derogatory, offensive) A non-Muslim characterized by a conciliatory stance towards Islam, abstaining from articulating opposing beliefs and refraining from criticizing the religion.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dhimmi gathered in one view.

noun

(derogatory, offensive) A non-Muslim characterized by a conciliatory stance towards Islam, abstaining from articulating opposing beliefs and refraining from criticizing the religion.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dhimmi.

noun

(derogatory, offensive) A non-Muslim characterized by a conciliatory stance towards Islam, abstaining from articulating opposing beliefs and refraining from criticizing the religion.

Example sentences

1

Jews don't have to beg to be allowed to live as dhimmi or as a minority in Europe.

2

Under an Islamic regime, you're a Muslim or you're a dhimmi or you're a slave.

3

The dhimmi system was a legal framework for protection and coexistence, revolutionary for its time when other civilizations were practicing actual genocide.

4

If you are talking about how Jews have been treated in Muslim countries it ranged between second rate citizens (dhimmi) to outright massacre.

5

The dhimmi system wasn't exploitation, it was a social contract.

6

Gotta pay the Dhimmi before we can forgive and flourish.

7

We are simply to accept is as socially normal and even desirable that there is a sizeable (several millions at least) voting block in the USA that wants to bring back slavery, destroy the principle of equality under the law (men-women, dhimmi, slaves,...).

8

We can also ignore the repeated mass-murders / pogroms of Jews throughout Israel and the rest of the Arab/Muslim world in the 19th, 18th, 17th, 16th, and prior centuries, since acknowledging that Jews were repeatedly killed in Safed and elsewhere would require you to acknowledge they existed there and were oppressed by the people and dhimmi laws of the Muslim empires.

9

The hadith state that all of islam, country and people are the personal property of the caliph (who is allowed to, for example, kill anyone, muslim, dhimmi or slave, for any reason, making islam even more inhumane than the Romans were.

Quote examples

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The word "dhimmi" means one who is under the protection of another.

2

Dhimmi literally meant "protected person" - they can't be attacked or looted by Muslims and were not conscripted.

3

You were safe and treated as nearly equal to other citizens as long as you paid a tax for your "protection": the Dhimmi.

4

Fact: non-muslims lived as Dhimmi, meaning they paid a special tax to keep their "protected" status, which meant they would not be killed or enslaved.

Proper noun examples

1

They were afforded that in the Ottoman empire (the Dhimmi) and they are afforded that now.

2

Look up the history and meaning of the word Dhimmi.

3

Dhimmi had to pay a special poll tax (the jizya), which exempted them from military service, and also from payment of the zakat alms tax required of Muslims.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dhimmi in a sentence?

Jews don't have to beg to be allowed to live as dhimmi or as a minority in Europe.

What does dhimmi mean?

(derogatory, offensive) A non-Muslim characterized by a conciliatory stance towards Islam, abstaining from articulating opposing beliefs and refraining from criticizing the religion.

What part of speech is dhimmi?

dhimmi is commonly used as noun.