dervish in English

noun

1

a member of a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity. Dervishes first appeared in the 12th century; they were noted for their wild or ecstatic rituals and were known as dancing , whirling , or howling dervishes according to the practice of their order.

His bold, expressive pictures are unmatched in the Islamic world, showing scenes of nomadic life; dancing and music-making demons, and Sufi dervishes .

Use "dervish" in a sentence

1. Even a whirling dervish.

2. 2 I have told you I am half a dervish.

3. 15 He threw himself around the stage like a whirling dervish.

4. 6 Auguste was a dervish in the centre of a whirlpool.

5. 8 He a whirling dervish of ideas who inspires hope and fear.

6. 1 Brian was whirling like a dervish, slapping at the mosquitoes and moaning.

7. 18 Finally, lightning and thunder, rain and stormaltogether and executed a mad dervish dance.

8. 13 First of all, you cut costs like a dervish - just to stay solvent.

9. Brian was whirling like a dervish, slapping at the mosquitoes and moaning.

10. 7 He is a whirling dervish of ideas who inspires hope and fear.

11. 19 I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

12. 11 Otherwise I will be so desperate like a dervish losing the belief to Allah.

13. 16 Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish.

14. 14 But then his uncle Dervish a promise of help, and things look like they might improve.

15. 3 Soon he is digging like a whirling dervish, the impressive show ending with another frantic leap.

16. 9 She is a dervish of unfocused energy, an accident about to happen ( jane Gross ).

17. 5 We Israelites, the wandering heirs Of a bewildered dervish, are taught distrust in prayer.

18. The majority of Albanians are Muslims, but there are some followers of the Bektashi dervish religion, Roman Catholics

19. 12 The Hedgehog was actually a group of whirling dervish sort of bombs fired ahead of the attacking ship.

20. 21 It certainly doesn't hurt that Liverpool also picked up the whirling dervish otherwise known as Luis Suarez.

21. 20 It took almost three months of effort to secure photographic permission from the proper dervish authorities.

22. 4 The dervish gyrating on his axis echoes the rotation of the earth and taps the sources of creative vibration.

23. 29 The dervish gyrating on his axis echoes the rotation of the earth and taps the sources of creative vibration.

24. 10 Only a whirling Dervish could dance a Mozart symphony: indeed, I have reduced two young and practised dancers to exhaustion by making them dance a Mozart overture.

25. 17 From the moment she rises at 7 a. m. in the Sunset Boulevard home she shares with her husband, she's a fidgety, demanding, chattering whirling dervish of a task Juggler.

26. This city was founded on the Tigris by the second Abbaside Caliph Abou Giafar al Mansur (762 or 764) and named by him Medinet es-Selam, or City of Salvation; Bagdad is a popular name said to mean "Garden of Dat", a Mussulman dervish