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.
A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).