Druze

See also: druze and druže

English

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Druze

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Etymology

From Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdruːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Druze (plural Druze or Druzes)

1. (religion) A member of a secretive religious community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
   • 1950 February 27, “Druzes in Israel Elect Council”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.

   • 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.

Coordinate terms

religious adherentsedit

• agnostic
• Asatruar
• atheist
• Baháʼí
• Buddhist
• Christian
• deist
• Druid
• Druze
• Eckist
• heathen
• Hindu
• Jain
• Jedi
• Jew
• Mormon
• Mormonist
• Muslim
• Odinist
• pagan
• Pastafarian
• Quaker
• Raëlian
• Rastafarian
• Rodnover
• Samaritan
• Shintoist
• Sikh
• Taoist
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Yahwist
• Yazidi
• Zoroastrian

Translations

collective Druze

Arabic: مُوَحِّدُون دُرُوز m pl (muwaḥḥidūn durūz), مُوَحِّدُون m pl (muwaḥḥidūn), دُرُوز m pl (durūz) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪ̈ܘܼܙܵܝܹܐ m pl (drūzāyē) Dutch: druzen (nl) pl Finnish: druusit pl French: Druzes (fr) pl Georgian: დრუზები (druzebi) German: Drusen (de) pl Hebrew: דרוזים m pl (druzim), דרוזיות f pl (druziyot) Hindi: ड्रूज़ m (ḍrūz) Italian: druso (it) m Japanese: ドゥルーズ派 (durūzu-ha) Polish: Druzowie m pl Portuguese: drusos m pl Russian: дру́зы m pl (drúzy) Swedish: druser c Turkish: Dürzüler pl

individual Druze

Arabic: دُرْزِيّ m (durziyy), دَرْزِيّ m (darziyy) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܪܘܼܙܵܝܵܐ m (drūzāyā), ܕܪܘܼܙܵܝܬܵܐ f (drūzāytā) Catalan: drus m, drusa (ca) f Dutch: druus (nl) m Finnish: druusi (fi) French: Druze (fr) m Georgian: დრუზი (druzi) German: Druse (de) m, Drusin (de) f Hebrew: דרוזי (he) m (druzi), דרוזית f (druzit) Hindi: ड्रूज़ m (ḍrūz) Hungarian: drúz Italian: druso (it) m Ottoman Turkish: درزی Polish: Druz m, Druzka f Portuguese: druso (pt) m Russian: друз (ru) m (druz) Turkish: Dürzü sg

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Indonesian: (please verify) Druze Spanish: (please verify) druso m Urdu: (please verify) دروز

Adjective

Druze (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to this religious community.
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:

     "The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:

     Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdry.zə/
• Hyphenation: Dru‧ze

Noun

Druze m (plural Druzen)

1. superseded spelling of druze

Usage notes

Now mostly used in poorly translated texts from English.