dervish

See also: Dervish

English

Alternative forms

• darwaysh, darwesh, dervise (archaic)

Etymology

From Turkish derviş, from Ottoman Turkish [Term?], 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) 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)

  Egyptian Arabic: درويش m (darwīš)

• Armenian: դերվիշ (hy) (derviš)
• Azerbaijani: dərviş
• Belarusian: дэ́рвіш m (dérviš)
• 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 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:
• 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

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