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单词 peshmerga
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peshmergan.

Brit. /peɪʃˈməːɡə/, /pɛʃˈməːɡə/, U.S. /peɪʃˈmərɡə/, /pɛʃˈmərɡə/
Inflections: Plural peshmergas, unchanged.
Forms: 1900s– peshmerga, 1900s– pesh merga, 1900s– peshmergah, 1900s– peshmerge, 1900s– peshmurga, 1900s– pesh murga, 1900s– pishmargeh. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Kurdish. Etymon: Kurdish pēšmerge.
Etymology: < Kurdish pēšmerge commando, partisan fighter, guerrilla < pēš in front of, before + merg death.
A member of a Kurdish nationalist revolutionary army established in the early 1960s. Also more generally: a Kurdish partisan or guerrilla.
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1963 Coventry Evening Tel. 18 July 10/3 The secretary of the central committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party, Ibrahim Ahmed, who is also the commander of this regional headquarters, laughed off all the Government claims of victories against the rebels. ‘They haven't scored a single victory against the Peshmerga’.
1965 Sunday Times 10 Oct. 10/3 In the six weeks I was with the Pesh Mergas I never heard a grumble. Every man is a volunteer and enlistments have recently been closed for lack of equipment and supplies.
1979 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 4/8 One new element in the situation is the movement of Kurds from Turkey into Iran, where they are joining the peshmurga, or partisans.
1990 Times 23 Jan. 32/1 His khaki shirt and baggy trousers..give him away as a peshmerga.
2003 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 21/1 In the north, Kurdish peshmerga have advanced into areas abandoned by Saddam's forces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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