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darwish

darwish is the alternative form of dervish.

Meaning of dervish

Noun

dervish (plural dervishes)

  1. (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
    Synonyms:
    fakir
  2. (historical) One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
    Synonyms:
    fakir
  3. (broadly) Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
    • The Hejaz war, meanwhile, would be one of dervishes against regular troops.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 104
    Synonyms:
    fakir

See all 5 meanings of dervish

Proper noun capitalized: Darwish

Darwish (plural Darwishes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of darwish

Noun
pluraldarwishes
Proper noun
pluralDarwishes

Questions about darwish

What does darwish mean?
Darwish means a surname.
What is darwish the alternative form of?
Darwish is the alternative form of dervish.
What part of speech is darwish?
Darwish is a proper noun.

Words near darwish in the dictionary

  1. darwinning out
  2. darwins
  3. darwins out
  4. darwinulid
  5. darwinulids
  6. darwish
  7. darwishes
  8. Darya
  9. Darya Boyi
  10. Daryl
  11. Daryna

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Adapted from Wiktionary: darwish (page history and authors); Darwish (page history and authors); dervish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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