Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "darwīš" (درويش), referring to a Sufi aspirant. The word appears as a surname in various forms throughout Arabic, 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
dervis- a word used to replace any verb created also the name of a world class jumpstapus.
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