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Meanings of Shiite in English

Portuguese
xiismo
Catalan
xiïta

A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.

xiismo
Usage of Shiite in English
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News of his execution has sparked Shiite protests from Bahrain to Pakistan.
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2
Iraq is torn between the two, though its population is predominantly Shiite.
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3
The alleged victim is Sunni and the policemen she accused are Shiite.
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4
Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, the supreme Shiite religious authority, sat at the center.
The forever war
5
Al-Qaeda was bombing Shiite mosques, public markets, murdering Iraqi civilians by the thousands.
The forever war
6
You said that there was no history of violence between Shiite and Sunni.
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The U.S. military figures Iran and its Shiite proxies want a propaganda victory.
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8
An hour later, we arrived at our destination, a Shiite town called Mushkhab.
The forever war
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Iraq's moderate Shiite religious and political leaders have joined the call.
Reuters
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The writer pointed out that southern Iraq, which was largely Shiite, was peaceful.
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11
After the Iraq War, Shiite organizations filled the vacuum of authority.
The new yorker
12
And this morning, suicide bombers struck outside a revered Shiite shrine in Baghdad.
Wired
13
Among them are anti-corruption activists and disaffected Shiite and Sunni factions.
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14
Al-Majnoun was a Lebanese Shiite who had come to Tehran in the mid-1980s.
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15
The Shamoons lived in Zayouna, Christians in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.
The forever war
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The Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah had seized American hostages in Lebanon.
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