dlgwš
Middle Persian
Alternative forms
- 𐬛𐬀𐬭𐬫𐬋𐬱 (daryōš) (Pazend)
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
- Mēnōg ī Xrad, chap. 57.22, cited in
Derived terms
- dlgwšyh (driyōšīh, “poverty”)
Noun
dlgwš • (driyōš)
- one who lives in holy indigence
Descendants
- Persian: درغوش (darğuš, darğôš), دریوش (daryuš, daryôš), درغویش (darğêš) (dialectal), درویش (darviš, darvêš)
- Tajik: дарвеш (darveš)
- → Arabic: دَرْوِيش (darwīš)
- → Armenian: տէրվիշ (tērviš), տէվրիշ (tēvriš), դա̈վրէշ (dävrēš), դա̈րվէշ (därvēš), դա̈րվիշ (därviš), դէրվիշ (dērviš), դօ̈վրիշ (dövriš) (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
- → Azerbaijani: dərviş
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: दरवेश (darveś)
- Urdu: درویش (darveś)
- → Ottoman Turkish: درویش (derviş)
- Turkish: derviş
- → Bulgarian: дерви́ш (dervíš)
- → English: Dervish
- → German: Derwisch
- → Dutch: derwisj
- → Greek: δερβίσης (dervísis)
- → Hungarian: dervis
- → Italian: derviscio
- → Macedonian: дервиш (derviš)
- → Polish: derwisz
- → Punjabi: ਦਰਵੇਸ (darves)
- → Romanian: derviș
- → Russian: де́рвиш (dérviš)
- → Serbo-Croatian: дѐрвӣш
- → Slovak: derviš
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 7010180
- Kanga, Kavasji Edalji (1909), “needy”, in An English–Avesta Dictionary, Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, OCLC 7010180
- “dlgwš”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.