Derviş Explained

Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "" (Arabic: 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:

Given name

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 president of Northern Cyprus.
Derviş Kemal Deniz (born 1954), Turkish Cypriot politician
Dervis Konuralp (born 1980), British Paralympic swimmer of Turkish-Cypriot descent
Derviş Vahdeti (1870–1909), Cyprus-born Ottoman religious figure and journalist
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

Dervish

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

Surname

Ahmet Derviş (1881–1932), officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army
Kemal Derviş (1949–2023), Turkish economist and politician
Suat Derviş (1905–1972), Turkish female novelist, journalist, and political activist