Druze

From Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdruːz/

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Druze

1. (religion) A secretive religious community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

Druze (plural Druze or Druzes)

1. A member of this community.
   • 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.

• (religionists) religionist; agnostic,‎ Asatruar,‎ atheist,‎ Baháʼí,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Druze,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Rodnover,‎ Samaritan,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Yahwist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

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.

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

Druze m (plural Druzen)

1. Superseded spelling of druze.

Now mostly used in poorly translated texts from English.