dervish

See also: Dervish

English

Alternative forms

darwaysh (archaic)
darwesh (archaic)
dervise (archaic)

Etymology

From Turkish derviş, from Ottoman Turkish, from Persian (darviš), from Middle Persian dlgwš (driyōš, “poor, needy”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɜːvɪʃ/

Noun

dervish (plural dervishes)

A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.
(historical) One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s.

Derived terms

whirling dervish

Translations

a member of Dervish fraternity of Sufism

Arabic: دَرْوِيش‎‎ m (darwīš)
Armenian: դերվիշ (hy) (derviš)
Azerbaijani: dərviş
Belarusian: дэ́рвіш m (dérviš)
Bulgarian: де́рвиш m (dérviš)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 德爾維希, 德尔维希 (dé'ěrwéixī), 托钵僧 (tuōbōsēng)
Czech: derviš m
Dutch: derwisj (nl) m
Esperanto: derviŝo
Estonian: derviš
Finnish: dervissi (fi)
French: derviche (fr) m
Georgian: დერვიში (derviši)
German: Derwisch (de) m, Derwischin f
Greek: δερβίσης (el) m (dervísis), ντερβίσης (el) m (dervísis)
Hebrew: דרוויש‎‎ m
Hungarian: dervis (hu)
Indonesian: darwis (id)
Italian: derviscio (it) m
Japanese: ダルヴィーシュ (daruvīshu)
Kazakh: деревиш (derevïş)

Kurdish: dewrêş (ku)
Kyrgyz: дербиш (ky) (derbiş), дарвиш (ky) (darviş)
Macedonian: дервиш m (derviš)
Manx: jervish
Pashto: دروېش‎‎ (ps) m (darweš)
Persian: درویش‎‎ (fa) (darviš)
Polish: derwisz (pl) m
Portuguese: dervixe (pt) m
Romanian: derviș (ro) m
Russian: де́рвиш (ru) m (dérviš)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дервиш m

Roman: derviš (sh) m
Slovak: derviš m
Slovene: derviš m
Spanish: derviche m
Swedish: dervisch (sv) c
Tajik: дарвеш (darveš)
Turkish: derviş (tr)
Ukrainian: де́рвіш (uk) m (dérviš)
Uzbek: darvish (uz)
Volapük: (♂♀) därvid (vo), (♂) hidärvid, (♀) jidärvid

Anagrams

shrived

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