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单词 dervish
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dervishn.

Brit. /ˈdəːvɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈdərvɪʃ/
Forms: 1500s–1800s dervis, 1600s–1800s dervise, (1600s dervice, dervys, dervisse, derviche, dervize, derwis, darvish, derveesh), 1600s– dervish, (1700s derwish, 1800s dirvesh, darwesh, durwaysh, durweesh).
Etymology: < Persian darvēsh, darvīsh poor, a religious mendicant, a friar, in Arabic darwēsh, darwīsh, Turkish dervīsh, the latter being the immediate source of the European forms: compare Italian dervis, French dervis, derviche (in 1559 derviss), Spanish derviche, German derwisch. Some of the variant spellings represent Arabic and Persian forms of the word. (The Arabic equivalent is faqīr poor, fakir.)
A Muslim friar, who has taken vows of poverty and austere life. Of these there are various orders, some of whom are known from their fantastic practices as dancing or whirling, and as howling dervishes.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > Muslim
dervish1585
fakir1609
whirler1815
Rifai1832
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xvii. 102 The thirde sect of the religious Turkes called Dervis.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xvii. 102 b These devoute Dervis live of almes.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1611 An order of Derueeshes, that turne round with Musike in their Diuine Seruice.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 316 Priests called Darvishes.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 200 A Dervice, or religious man of theirs.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 307 The Dervisse an order of begging Friar.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 186 A wandering Derwish, a devout Moor.
1744 Trav. C. Thompson III. 267 They are not the dancing Dervises, of which Sort there are none in Egypt.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. iii. 510 A Dirvesh, or professor of piety.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxix. 17 Like dervises, who turn as on a pivot.
1832 G. A. Herklots tr. Customs Moosulmans 206 The first class of Durwayshes is denominated Salik.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 161 Barefooted Dervish is not poor, If fate unlock his bosom's door.
1852 E. B. Eastwick tr. Mir Amman Bāgh o Bahār 10 Adventures of the Four Darweshes.
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Jan. 10 Whirling about all round you like dancing dervishes.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 37 And now, their guttural chorus audible long before they arrived in sight, came the howling dervishes.
attributive.1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vii. 87 Give themselves up to a Dervise sort of Life.1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1810 This pantheistic dervish system.

Derivatives

ˈdervishhood n. the estate or condition of a dervish.
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1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 9 Half-way on Dervishhood, not wholly there.
ˈdervishism n. the principles and practice of the dervishes; the dervish system.
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1865 Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 144/2 Dr. Vambery wandered, because he has the genuine wild spirit of Dervishism strong within him.
ˈdervish-like adj.
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1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders Introd. p. xxii Asceticism..strangely uncouth, and dervish-like.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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