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/ˈmaɹəbuːt/ · noun
(Islam) 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’.
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.
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.
Use marabout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Marabout means (Islam) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa..
Common synonyms include marabou, marabou stork, leptoptilus crumeniferus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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’.
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