Definition of “dervish”

After all, dervish may sound devilish, but for Muslims it means monk.

But, in the belly dancing world, what goes around comes around faster than a whirling dervish.

Eighteen years ago, the France manager, then a hard-running box-to-box dervish at St Etienne, had his first appointment with history.

Galkacaayo marks the spot where the dervish army under Seyyid Mohamed ibn Abdullah Hassan defeated a colonial force.

He spun like a dervish , turning eccentric rings as the blindness overwhelmed him, then dropped to the floor.

Jacques spent a lively set doing the dance of the whirling dervish with DANNII MINOGUE to `top" hits including Fields Of Fire.

Like the dervish knights whom Adam had seen setting out from their monastery, their motto was `Ride and die!

She could dance like a dervish , march like a soldier, or hop like a one-legged pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.

These high energy dervish dances help people vent volatile emotions through non-violent ways.