Definitions for dervish

dervish der·vish

Spelling: [dur-vish]
IPA: /ˈdɜr vɪʃ/

Dervish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in dervish (dehirsv).

Definitions for dervish

noun

  1. a member of any of various Muslim ascetic orders, as the Sufis, some of which carry on ecstatic observances, such as energetic dancing and whirling or vociferous chanting or shouting.

Origin of dervish

1575-85; Turkish Persian darvīsh poor man, beggar

Examples for dervish

There, the dervish is thrown into the cauldron along with the magic herbs.

Once Ibrahim asked a dervish, "Have you a wife and children?"

And here, the hospitality of the dervish does not belie his Arab blood.

So he done it, and they separated and the dervish started off again with his forty.

And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.

His earthliness places him not among those larger-than-life kind of heroes, but among the humble, quiet ones—a dervish hero.

Which is a mortal task for the dervish in the presence of the Enchantress.

It is said that among them was a dervish who asked him, "What is love?"

HE has got on a black gown and cap, something like the dervish.

No dervish could take you for a white man, unless he was mad.

Word Value for dervish
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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