Talk:Jihadi international

question regarding Arabic grammar

The article currently states that the word "Jihadi" is incorrect because the "-i" ending properly refers to a person's place of origin. But that doesn't seem to be the case with words like "Sunni" or "Salafi" or "Wahhabi," none of which is derived from the name of a place. Even "Saudi," which is often used nowadays as a designation of nationality, originally meant "Of or relating to the Saud family," as I understand it. Can anyone clarify this? 65.213.77.129 (talk) 20:26, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

The article on Sunni Islam suggests a more accurate transliteration than "sunni" would be sunnah. Ditto salaf for salafi, wahhābīyya‎ for wahhabi, and as-Suʻūdiyya for the "Saudi" in Saudi Arabia. The "i"s may have gotten into Arabic-to-English transliteration largely to make the words more "English-y" and easier to pronounce by English speakers. 88.112.56.9 (talk) 11:52, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

no. the nisba suffix just forms adjectives. "Jihadi" is simply the adjective of "jihad", i.e. "jihadist". But "someone fighting in a jihad" is formed from a separate stem, viz. mujahid. --dab (𒁳) 19:49, 11 May 2011 (UTC)