Baathist

Baathist
Ba·ath·ist also Ba'ath·ist (bäʹä-thĭst) n.
A member of a pan-Arab socialist political party active principally in Syria and Iraq.
  [After the Ba'ath Party, from Arabic ba‘ṯ, revival, from ba‘ata, to send, evoke, awaken.]   Baʹath·ism n.

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