English

Noun

marabout ‎(plural marabouts)

1. A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. [from 17th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 38:

     one of their principal targets was the marabouts – or holy men and leaders of mystic orders – whom they accused both of corrupting the faith by their espousal of mysticism and of being the ‘domestic animals of colonialism’.

2. The tomb or shrine of such a person. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• maraboutic
• maraboutism

Translations

Anagrams

• tamboura

French

Alternative forms

• marabou

Etymology

Arabic مُرَابِط ‎(murābiṭ).

Noun

marabout m ‎(plural marabouts)

1. (religion) marabout
2. (zoology) marabou, stork of the Leptoptilos genus

Derived terms

• marabouter
• maraboutage
• maraboutisme
• maraboutiste