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Middle Persian
Etymology
From Old Iranian *drigu-, from a Proto-Indo-Iranian root shared with Sanskrit ध्रिगु (dhrigu, “needy”), Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬌𐬔𐬎 (drigu), 𐬛𐬭𐬌𐬖𐬎 (driγu, “poor, needy”).
Adjective
dlgwš • (driyōš) (comparative dlgwštl, superlative dlgwštwm)
- poor, needy
- Mēnōg ī Xrad, chap. 57.22, cited in
PWB hlt' dlgwštl- pad xrad driyōštar
- poorer in wisdom
Derived terms
Noun
dlgwš • (driyōš)
- one who lives in holy indigence
Descendants
- Persian: درغوش (darğuš, darğôš), دریوش (daryuš, daryôš), درغویش (darğêš) (dialectal), درویش (darviš, darvêš)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “driyōš”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 27
- Mansour Shaki, Hamid Algar (December 15, 1994), "DARVĪŠ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica, last updated November 18, 2011
- Kanga, Kavasji Edalji (1909) “poor”, in An English–Avesta Dictionary, Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, →OCLC
- Kanga, Kavasji Edalji (1909) “needy”, in An English–Avesta Dictionary, Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, →OCLC
- “dlgwš”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.