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Shiadom
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English
Etymology
From en Shia dom.
Noun
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The Shiite world.
en 1933 Indian State Railways Magazine 6 10 It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.
en 2005 Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed 207 In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.
en 2007 Stephen C. Pelletiere Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics 60 As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.
en Shi'ism