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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:

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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’.

Derviş

  • Derviş Ali (died 1673), Ottoman calligrapher
  • Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu (1924-1965), Turkish Cypriot politician assassinated by Turkish paramilitary group TMT.
  • Derviş Eroğlu (born 1938), Turkish Cypriot former Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus.
  • Derviş Kemal Deniz (born 1954), Turkish Cypriot politician
  • Dervis Konuralp (born 1980), British Paralympic swimmer of Turkish-Cypriot descent
  • Derviş Turhan (1919–2010), Turkish jurist and former president of the Supreme Court
  • Derviş Zaim (born 1964), Turkish Cypriot novelist

    • Derviš

  • Derviš-beg Alić Sarvanović, Ottoman governor of the sanjak of Montenegro
  • Derviš Hadžiosmanović (born 1959), Montenegrin football coach and former player
  • Derviš Sušić (1925–1990), Bosnian writer

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  • Dervish Mehmed, the title and name of several historical Ottoman people

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  • Ahmet Derviş (1881–1932), officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army
  • Kemal Derviş (born 1949), Turkish economist and politician
  • Suat Derviş (1904 oder 1905–1972), Turkish female novelist, journalist, and political activist

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