dervish
About 0.33 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
- noun A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
- noun One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
- noun Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
Similar words
fakir darwish dervis darwesh whirling dervish darwaysh derweesh abdal calender sufi
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Word family
dervishes
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