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語源

Borrowed from Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdruːz/

名詞

Druze (plural Druze or Druzes)

1. (religion) A member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
   • 1950 February 27, “Druzes in Israel Elect Council”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.

   • 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 November 2023:

     This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.

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形容詞

Druze (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to this religious community.
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:

     "The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:

     Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.

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