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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB whirl ▪ Some of them were whirling round like dervishes . ▪ The whirling dervishes , though often the face of Sufism in the West, represent only one school. ▪ These creatures weren't children - they were whirling dervishes ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning. 2 (cx historical English) One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Turkish dervish , from Persian darvesh , darvish "beggar, poor," hence "religious mendicant;" equivalent of Arabic faqir (see fakir ). The "whirling dervishes" are just one order among many. Originally dervis ; modern spelling is from mid-19c. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dervish are an Irish traditional music group from County Sligo , Ireland who have been described by BBC Radio 3 as "an icon of Irish music". They were formed in 1989 by Liam Kelly, Shane Mitchell, Martin McGinley , Brian McDonagh, and Michael Holmes and ...
Usage examples of dervish.
Nor was there time to anchor, for the Dervish boats closed in swiftly: as they reached the barges they hooked on to the sides and the Ansar warriors tried to clamber aboard, but they were unable to obtain a foothold on the packed decks.
Dervish Ansar hacked their way on board and the passengers were driven like sardines before a barracuda to the far rail of the ungainly craft.
Penrod and Yakub wore turbans and Ansar jib has for they would be riding north through the Dervish lines.
The drums beat faster and the Dervish lines broke into a trot, the Ansar in the front beginning to jostle each other to be first into the square.
He could be forgiven for not recognizing the dervish that raced down the gangboard and overtook him on the wharf.
All of them wore the jibba of the Dervish and were armed with spear, sword, targe and rifle.
Penrod saw at once that the jibba was plain, not decorated with the ritual multi-coloured patches that had such powerful political and religious significance and constituted a Dervish uniform.
Up and down the ranks scurried the dervishes, clad only in kalpaks of camel-hair and green aprons fringed with ebony beads, exhorting the Faithful.
The Dervish governor of Gallabat was almost overcome by the honour of receiving the mighty Khalif Osman Atalan as a guest in his city.
The Dervish shot began falling more heavily around the little vessels, and hordes of Arab cavalry came galloping down the banks from the direction of Omdurman and Khartoum to intercept the flotilla.
As soon as we leave Omdurman the entire Dervish army will be alerted, and will pursue us relentlessly.
If this was true she would not support the Dervish jihad in Omdurman, but it was best not to trust her.
He is usually some Dervish pedlar or merchant trading with the tribes of the Soudan, who slips into Wadi Halfa or Assouan or Suakin and undertakes the work.
Basili was strictly charged by Ali Pasha in person to attend us, and Dervish was one of fifty who accompanied us through the forests of Acarnania, to the banks of the Achelous, and onward to Missolonghi.
ISHAK The platitudes of dervishes do not much disturb the beatitudes of kings.