dervish.
An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
Meaning & usage
An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish درویش (derviş), from Persian درویش (darvêš, “poor; Sufi mystic”), from Middle Persian dlgwš (driyōš, “poor, needy”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *drigu-, cognate with Sanskrit ध्रिगु (dhrigu, “needy”) and Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬌𐬔𐬎 (driguš).
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