دیوان

See also: ديوان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دیوان (divân).

Noun

دیوان • (dîvân)

  1. divan (collection of poems)
  2. divan (council of state)
  3. court, tribunal
  4. An administrative unit consisting of a few villages in the Ottoman Empire.

Descendants

  • Turkish: divan
  • → Azerbaijani: divan
  • → Czech: divan
  • → French: divan
  • → Greek: διβάνι (diváni), ντιβάνι (ntiváni)
  • → Hungarian: díván
  • → Italian: divano, diwan
  • → Middle Armenian: տիւան (tiwan)
  • → Polish: dywan
  • → Romanian: divan
  • → Russian: дива́н (diván)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: дѝва̄н
    Latin script: dìvān
  • → Bulgarian: дива̀н (divàn)
  • → Spanish: diván

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian d(p)ywʾn' (dēwān, “archive, collected writings”); see there for further information.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪eː.wɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪eː.wɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪eː.wɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? dēwān
Dari reading? dēwān
Iranian reading? divân
Tajik reading? devon
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari دیوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik девон

دیوان • (divân) (plural دیوان‌ها (divân-hâ))

  1. divan (collection of poems)
  2. divan (council)
  3. bureau
  4. court, tribunal
  5. a muster roll, a register of soldiers
  6. sofa, couch

Derived terms

  • دیوان‌خانه (divân-xâne)
  • دیوان کشور (divân-e kešvar)

Descendants

References

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دیوان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dēwān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 26
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