单词	dervish
释义	dervishder‧vish /ˈdɜːvɪʃ $ ˈdɜːr-/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdervish Origin: 1500-1600 Turkish dervis ‘poor person, beggar’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Auguste was a dervish in the centre of a whirlpool. I have told you I am half a dervish. Some of them were whirling round like dervishes. The dervish gyrating on his axis echoes the rotation of the earth and taps the sources of creative vibration. The whirling dervishes, though often the face of Sufism in the West, represent only one school. Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish. We Israelites, the wandering heirs Of a bewildered dervish, are taught distrust in prayer. word sets WORD SETS► Islam Allah, ayatollah, nounBlack Muslim, nouncrescent, noundervish, nounemir, nounfatwa, nounhaj, nounhajji, nounhakim, nounhalal, adjectiveHegira, Hegira calendar, Hejira, imam, nounIslam, nounjihad, nounKoran, the, adjectiveMohammed, nounMoslem, mosque, nounmuezzin, nounmufti, nounmujaheddin, nounmullah, nounMuslim, nounprayer mat, nounpurdah, nounQuran, the, Ramadan, nounSaracen, nounsharia, nounsheikh, nounShia, nounShiite, nounSunni, nounyashmak, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► whirl · Some of them were whirling round like dervishes.· The whirling dervishes, though often the face of Sufism in the West, represent only one school.· These creatures weren't children - they were whirling dervishes! a member of a Muslim religious group, some of whom dance fast and spin around as part of a religious ceremony
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