Associations to the word «Dervish»

Wiktionary

DERVISH, noun. A member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars.
DERVISH, noun. A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.
DERVISH, noun. (historical) One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s.

Dictionary definition

DERVISH, noun. An ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca