dervish

dervish antonyms

sybarite compare dervish and sybarite

dervish definitions

noun

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

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

  • One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.