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1. i. suikastçı. suikastçi, katil. suikastçi. suikastçi. i. suikastçı. suikastçi. katil, suikâstçi, kiralık katil.
2. suikastçı, ismaili mezhebinin Haşşâşin denilen koluna mensup olan kimse; katil, gizlice adam öIdüren kimse, suikastçı.
3. suikastçı. katil.
4. katil. suikastçı. suikastçi. gizlice adam öldüren kimse. bir kamu şahsiyetinin katili.
5. suikastçi.

Etymology : Medieval Latin assassinus, from Arabic hashshAshIn, plural of hashshAsh one who smokes or chews hashish, from hashIsh hashish
Pronunciation : &-sa-s^&n
Function : noun
Date : circa 1520

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1. member of a group of Muslim extremists in Syria and Persia who sought to assassinate Crusaders. one who murders premeditatedly, one who secretly murders another. assassin\as*sas"sin\, v. t. to assassinate. [obs.]assassin \as*sas"sin\ , n. [f. (cf. it. assassino), fr. ar. ‘hashishin one who has drunk of the hashish. under its influence the assassins of the east, followers of the shaikh al-jabal (old man of the mountain), were said to commit the murders required by their chief.] one who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
2. One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
3. To assassinate. a murderer who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" a member of a secret order of Muslims who terroriszed and killed Christian Crusaders.
4. An assassin is a person who assassinates someone. He saw the shooting and memorised the number of the assassin's car. someone who murders an important person (assassinus, from hashshashin , from hashish). properly Nizriyyah Byname for any member of a sub-sect of Ismil Shite Muslims who operated in parts of Iran and Syria from the 11th to the 13th century. The order takes its name from the purported use of hashish to induce ecstatic visions of paradise among its devotees (hashshshn, "hashish smokers" whence is derived the English term) before they set out to face martyrdom. The Assassins operated out of series of mountain fortresses and, seeing assassination as a religious duty, engaged in a long campaign of murder against members of the Sunnite community, including numerous officials of the Abbsid and Seljq dynasties, and others. The Assassins' power was finally broken by the Mongols, who captured the great Assassin stronghold of Alamt in Iran in 1256. The Syrian branch was destroyed by the Mamlk Baybars I in 1271.
5. Leadership of the Nizr order continued until modern times in the line of the Aga Khans, a family prominent worldwide as philanthropists and public servants.