What is the origin of the word,"assasin"?

Question

I think it may have started with arabic, and the word Hashish.

Answer 1

very good ....here is what I found

Meanwhile, back at your first question, the first "assassins" were Muslim fanatics who, at the time of the Crusades, pledged themselves to ridding their lands of Christian infidels and other enemies. In preparation for their murderous forays, they would fortify themselves by consuming large quantities of hashish, and thus became known as "hashashin," or "hashish eaters." When the word was imported into English in the 17th century, it was spelled more phonetically, and "assassin" eventually came to mean anyone who commits murder, usually of a public figure, for political, psychological, monetary or religious reasons.

Answer 2

You are in the ball park. Here is what Dictionary.com says:

They were members of a secret Islamic order originating in the 11th century who believed it was a religious duty to harass and murder their enemies. The most important members of the order were those who actually did the killing. Having been promised paradise in return for dying in action, the killers, it is said, were made to yearn for paradise by being given a life of pleasure that included the use of hashish. From this came the name for the secret order as a whole, an, “hashish users.” After passing through French or Italian, the word came into English and is recorded in 1603 with reference to the Muslim Assassins.

Thanks for the points, but you could found that yourself, you know...

Answer 3

is the deliberate killing of an important person, usually a political figure or other strategically important individual. An assassin (one who carries out an assassination) usually has an ideological or political agenda, and regards the target as a serious obstacle to furthering their agenda. Other motivations may be money (in the case of a contract killing), revenge, or acts of espionage at the request of a government. Assassination, like companion terms such as terrorism and freedom fighter, is often considered to be a loaded term.

The Hashshashin (also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin or Assassins) had a militant basis as a religious sect (often referred to as a cult) of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect. They were thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society specialized in terrorising the Abbasid elite with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations. The word "assassin" is derived from their name. Their own name for the sect was al-da'wa al-jadīda (الدعوةالجديدة) which means the new doctrine. They called themselves fedayeen from the Arabic fidā'ī, which means one who is ready to sacrifice their life for a cause.

Some governments use the euphemism targeted killing as the name for the controversial strategy to save their citizens lives whereby anticipated acts of terrorism are prevented by assassinating a person deemed to be related to those acts.

Answer 4

you are correct. It began in India, I believe, when a religious sect would give followers hashish before going out on a "mission"

Answer 5

yah it comes from the word Hashish which then evolved into Hassassin but people dropped the 'h' because were lazy, but yah its hashish

Answer 6

The standard accepted etymology is that the name derived from a Crusades-era Muslim group that killed while under the influence of hashish.

I won't guess whether it is actually true, or not. It reads more like an urban myth.

Answer 7

The word assassin is derived from the word Hashasheen from the people who would kill select individuals from power for money.

Answer 8

yes, i really think is a origin of the arabic word.

Answer 9

Wrong.

Click here:
http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/alamut/etymolAss.html

Answer 10

Don't know exactly.but you should look in some Islamic vocabulary for something similar.I think...I'm 95% sure that it is Islamic word in origin.