Talk:dervish

RFV discussion: March–July 2010

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dervish

Rfv-sense "One that possesses abundant, often frenzied energy."​—msh210℠ 18:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

That definition is verbatim from AHD, so we should reword it at the very least. That being said I think it is a legit definition, probably reverse from (deprecated template usage) whirling dervish which we still need. - [The]DaveRoss 00:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

It may be legit. I RFVed it after finding no hits for google books:"son|daughter|kid is a dervish" or even on the Web (!).​—msh210℠ 15:57, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh_TALK 19:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

See the citations for a use of this sense, or possibly a missing adjective sense ("tracing the dervish embers"). — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 04:31, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

"darwaysh"

Another spelling is "darwaysh" - see Richard Francis Burton's Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah and Meccah, vol 1 page 2 Philologick (talk) 07:29, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 12:02, 23 May 2016 (UTC)