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Marabout vs Marabou - What's the difference?

marabout | marabou |

As nouns the difference between marabout and marabou

is that marabout is a muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of north africa while marabou is leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.

marabout

English

(wikipedia marabout)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
  • *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’.
  • The tomb or shrine of such a person.

    • Derived terms

    * maraboutic * maraboutism

    Anagrams

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    marabou

    English

    (wikipedia marabou) (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)

    Alternative forms

    * marabu

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
  • (dated, US, Louisiana) A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
    • (Bartlett)

    Synonyms

    * (bird) adjutant stork, marabou stork