DARVĪŠ, a poor, indigent, ascetic, and abstemious person or recluse (Av. drəgu-, driγu- “the needy one, dependent”; Lommel, pp. 127-28; pace AirWb. 777: “poor, needy; Mid. Pers. driyōš “worthy poor, needy; one who lives in holy indigence”; Pāzand daryōš; NPers. darγōš > daryōš > darvīš). Paul Horn (Etymologie, s.v. dervēš) connected it with New Persian derīḡ “regret, sorrow,” a connection that Heinrich Hübschmann (Persische Studien, p. 62) rightly doubted. (For further discussion of the word, see Lommel, p. 129, with references; Borhān-e qāṭeʿ, ed. Moʿīn, II, p. 846.)