Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pesh_merga

1 sense of pesh merga

Sense 1
Pesh Merga -- (a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan)
       INSTANCE OF=> guerrilla force, guerilla force -- (an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment; often rural and organized in large groups)


1 sense of peshmerga

Sense 1
peshmerga -- (a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state)
       => Kurd -- (a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state)