Hezbollah |ˌhezbəˈlä; hezˈbälə| (also Hizbullah)
an extremist Shiite Muslim group that has close links with Iran, created after the Iranian revolution of 1979 and active esp. in Lebanon.
ORIGIN from Arabic ḥizbullāh ‘Party of God,’ from ḥezb ‘party’ + ‛allāh (see Allah ).