Dervish Definition

dûrvĭsh
dervishes
noun
A member of any of various Muslim religious groups dedicated to a life of poverty and chastity: some dervishes practice whirling, chanting, etc. as religious acts.
Webster's New World
One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy.
American Heritage
A member of any of various Muslim ascetic orders, some of which perform whirling dances and vigorous chanting as acts of ecstatic devotion.
American Heritage
One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
pronoun

A Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity; a form of mendicant friars.

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Other Word Forms of Dervish

Noun

Singular:
dervish
Plural:
dervishes

Origin of Dervish

  • Turkish derviş mendicant from Persian darvēš from Middle Persian driyōš needy one, one who lives in holy mendicancy from Old Iranian (Avestan) drigu- Sanskrit adhriguḥ (a divine epithet of unknown but favorable meaning) perhaps a- not dhrigu- poor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Turkish derviş mendicant from Persian darvēš from Middle Persian driyōš needy one, one who lives in holy mendicancy from Old Iranian (Avestan) drigu- Sanskrit adhriguḥ (a divine epithet of unknown but favorable meaning) perhaps a- not dhrigu- poor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Turkish derviş, from Persian درویش (darvish).

    From Wiktionary

Dervish Sentence Examples

  • From Gallabat a dervish raiding party penetrated to Gondar, which they looted.

  • The mainland part of the town is surrounded by a high coral wall, built in 1884 to resist dervish attacks.

  • In the Sinan Tekke or Dervish monastery the ceremonies of the howling and dancing Dervishes may be witnessed.

  • On the 7th of August 1897 Colonel Hunter surprised and annihilated a weak Dervish garrison at Abu Hamed, to which place, by the 31st of October 1897, a railway had been laid across the Nubian desert from Wadi Haifa, a distance of 230 m., the record construction of 5300 yds surveyed, embanked and laid in one day having been attained.

  • In 1890 the Shilluks in the neighborhood of Fashoda rose against the khalifa, and the dervish amir of Gallabat, Zeki Tumal, was engaged for two years in suppressing the rebellion.

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