dervish

See also: Dervish

English

Alternative forms

• darwaysh, darwesh, dervice, dervis, dervise (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɜːvɪʃ/

Noun

dervish (plural dervishes)

1. A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.
2. (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo.
3. (historical) One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s.
   1. (by extension) Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
      • 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor (1991), p. 104:

        The Hejaz war, meanwhile, would be one of dervishes against regular troops.

Derived terms

• Whirling Dervish

Translations

a member of Dervish fraternity of Sufism

• Arabic: دَرْوِيش m (darwīš)

  Egyptian Arabic: درويش m (darwīš)

• Armenian: դերվիշ (hy) (derviš)
• Azerbaijani: dərviş
• Belarusian: дэ́рвіш m (dérviš)
• Bengali: দরবেশ (dôrbeś)
• Bulgarian: де́рвиш m (dérviš)
• Catalan: dervix m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德爾維希／德尔维希, 德尔维希 (dé'ěrwéixī), 托钵僧 (tuōbōsēng)

• Czech: derviš (cs) 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 (ntervísis)
• Hebrew: דרוויש m
• Hindi: दरवेश (hi) m (darveś)
• Hungarian: dervis (hu)
• Indonesian: darwis (id)
• Italian: derviscio (it) m
• Japanese: ダルヴィーシュ (daruvīshu)
• Kazakh: деревиш (dereviş)
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• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dewrêş (ku), derwêş (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)
• Urdu: درویش m (darveś)
• Uzbek: darvish (uz)
• Volapük: (♂♀) därvid (vo), (♂) hidärvid, (♀) jidärvid

Anagrams

• shrived