Ramzi

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proper noun

A male given name from Arabic.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

proper nounRamzi (plural Ramzis)

plural Ramzis

  1. A male given name from Arabic.

    The attacks were carried out by a terrorist group which included Ramzi Yousef, who in 1998 received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the bombings, as well as a number of other attacks or planned attacks including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

    2021 September 11, Ryan O'Neill, “The Swansea student who bombed the World Trade Centre and inspired Osama Bin Laden”, in Wales Online, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2021
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    Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappeared, either into Karachi’s un derground or across the border into Afghanistan.

    1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2016
  2. A surname from Arabic.

Origin

  1. Arabicرَمْزِيّ
  2. EnglishRamzi

Borrowed from Arabic رَمْزِيّ (ramziyy).

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APA

Ramzi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ramzi

MLA

“Ramzi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ramzi. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ramzi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ramzi.

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