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    Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins (Arabic: حَشّاشِین, romanized: Ḥashshāshīyīn; Persian: حشاشين, romanized: Ḥaššāšīn) were a Nizari Isma'ili order...
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    French Assissini, believed to derive from the word hashshashin (Arabic: حشّاشين, romanized: ħashshāshīyīn), and shares its etymological roots with hashish...
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  • Arabic plural *Hashīshiyyīn "hashish smokers", derived of hašiš > hashish حشاشين aubergine ("aubergine") : from Catalan alberginía, itself from Arabic al...
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  • Assassin and assassination derive from the word hashshashin (Arabic: حشّاشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also hashishin, hashashiyyin, means Assassins), and shares...
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