Derviş
Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "darwīš" (درويش), referring to a Sufi aspirant. The word appears as a given name and surname in various forms throughout Arabic, Bosnian (a Slavic language), Persian, and Turkish-speaking communities. An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names:
Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘beggar’, ‘one who goes from door to door’.— Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Notable people
- Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu (1924-1965), Turkish Cypriot politician assassinated by Turkish paramilitary group TMT.
- Kemal Derviş (born 1949), Turkish economist and politician
- Derviş Zaim (born 1964), Turkish Cypriot novelist
- Derviş Eroğlu (born 1938), Turkish Cypriot former Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus.
- Derviş Kemal Deniz (born 1954), Turkish Cypriot politician
- Dervish Mehmed, the title and name of several historical Ottoman people.
- Derviš Sušić (1925–1990), Bosnian writer
See also
- Dervish (disambiguation)
- Darwish
- Darvish (Sufi aspirant)
- Darvish (disambiguation)
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