Etymograph

English

Kharijite

Kharijite comes from Arabic خَارِجِي ‘one who split off, one who departed’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentخَارِجِيḵārijī‘one who split off, one who departed’
  2. EnglishtodayKharijite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentخَارِجِيḵārijī‘one who split off, one who departed’
  2. EnglishtodayKharijite

Today it means

noun A member of a reactionary Islamic sect, Kharijism, in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic خَارِجِي / Kharijite