marabout
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marabout
- /ˈmaɹəbuːt/ UK
Where it comes from
From French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic مْرَابِط (mrabeṭ) (standard Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).
noun marabouts
- A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. 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’.
- The tomb or shrine of such a person. Climbing one on his second day lost, Prosperi spotted a disturbance to the view. “I was convinced it was somebody’s home or a holy man’s shrine.” But the shrine, or marabout, was empty. The only holy man was in a sarcophagus.
- Alternative form of marabou (“thin fabric made from silk”). Wherever she went she had, if not the finest, at any rate the most showy gown in the room; her ornaments were the biggest; her hats, toques, berets, marabouts, and other fallals, always the most conspicuous.
Translations
Talk about this word "marabout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/marabout. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. marabout. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/marabout "marabout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/marabout.Cite this
@misc{marabout_2026,
title = {marabout},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/marabout},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
