different between mystic vs marabout

English

Alternative forms

• mystick (archaic)
• mystical (adjective)

Etymology

From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from ?????? (múst?s, “one who has been initiated”). Doublet of mystique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

mystic (comparative more mystic, superlative most mystic)

1. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.

   a mystic dance

2. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody

     Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man.

Translations

Noun

mystic (plural mystics)

1. Someone who practices mysticism.

Translations

Related terms

• mysterious
• mystery
• mystical
• mysticism
• mystify
• mystique

References

• mystic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “mystic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• mystic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mystic at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic ????????? (mrabe?) (standard Arabic ????????? (mur?bi?, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma??bu?t/

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 ????????? (mur?bi?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?a.bu/

Noun

marabout m (plural marabouts)

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

Derived terms

• marabouter
• maraboutage
• maraboutisme
• maraboutiste

Descendants

• ? Catalan: marabú
• ? English: marabout
• ? Spanish: marabú

Further reading

• “marabout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).