See Also: druse(medicine)
Druse(dictionary)

Druse (iou)



Druse noun1 & adjective. [dru:z] Also Druze. L18.
[(French from) Arab. Duruz pl. of Durzi var. of Darazi, from the name of Muammad ibn Ismail ad-Darazi (d. 1019), one of the founders.]
A. noun. Pl. same, -s. A member of a small religious and political sect, orig. an offshoot of the Ismaili Shiite Muslims, that lives chiefly in Syria and Lebanon and believes in the divinity of the 6th Fatimid caliph of Egypt (d. AD 1020). L18.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating the Druse. L18.
Also Drusian noun & adjective L16.