sumud

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noun

Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.

OriginArabic صُمُود →
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Meanings

nounsumud (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSteadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.
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    Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, […] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle […] Sumud embodies a radical alterity […] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to interrogators […]

    2019 September 16, Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee, Critical Community Psychology: Critical Action and Social Change, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Arabicصُمُود“steadfastness; firmness, resistance”
  2. Englishsumud

From Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, “steadfastness; firmness, resistance”).

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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