बड़े अफ्रीकी काले और सफेद कैरियन-खाने का सामान; इसके डाउनी अंडरविंग पंखों का उपयोग वस्त्रों को ट्रिम करने के लिए किया जाता है

Noun:

फकीर का कब्र, मुसलमान संन्यासी, फकीर,

marabouts's Usage Examples:

The hereditary caste known as Marabouts are frequently in open.

The native quarter, called Tijit, occupies the eastern slopes of the ravine and the level ground above, and is dominated by the kubbas of two marabouts.

in 1535, there were still found in the city native Christians, the last remnants of the mountains, who had never been latinized and never really christianized, accepted Islam without difficulty, but showed their stubborn nationality, not only in the character of their Mahommedanism, which has always been Berber mixed up with the worship of living as well as dead saints (marabouts) and other peculiarities, but also in political movements.

Rinn, Marabouts et Khouan (Algiers, 1884); and the article Dervish.

The marabouts took a prominent part in the resistance offered to the French by the Algerian Moslems; and they have been similarly active in politico-religious movements in Tunisia and Tripoli.

On their death their sanctity is transferred to their tombs (also called marabouts), where chapels are erected and gifts and prayers offered.

Ibrahim and the doctor Abdullah developed into the conquering empire of the Murabits, or, as Christian writers call them, the Almoravides, and there still, among the Berbers, the marabouts enjoy extraordinary influence, being esteemed as living saints and mediators.

The great sphere of the marabouts is North Africa.

marabouts's Meaning':

large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments