dervish

dervish englannista suomeksi

1. dervissi

0. Substantiivi

1. dervissi

dervish englanniksi

1. An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.

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2. A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (''circa'' 1895–1920 (C.E)), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.

3. One of the followers of (w), the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.

4. Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.

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