دیوان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دیوان (divân).

Noun

دیوان (dîvân)

1. divan (collection of poems)
2. divan (council of state)
3. court, tribunal

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭 (dēwān), from unattested Old Persian compound *dipi-vahanam (“document house”), composed from *dip- (“writing, document”) (from Akkadian 𒁾 (ţuppu, “tablet, document, letter”), from Sumerian 𒁾 (dub, “tablet”)), and *vahana- (whence also Persian جا (jā, “place”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell”).

Noun

Dari	دیوان‍
Iranian Persian	دیوان‍
Tajik	‍девон‍

دیوان • (divân)

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

Derived terms

• دیوان‌خانه (divân-xâne)
• دیوان‌کشور (divân-e-kešvar)

Descendants

• Arabic: ديوان (dīwān)
• Georgian: დივანი (divani), მდივანი (mdivani)
• Old Armenian: դիւան (diwan)
  • Armenian: դիվան (divan)
• Ottoman Turkish: دیوان (dîvân)
  • French: douane, divan
    • English: divan
    • Russian: диван
  • Greek: διβάνι, ντιβάνι
  • Italian: dogana, divano
  • Polish: dywan
  • Serbo-Croatian: dìvān / дѝва̄н
  • Spanish: diván
  • Turkish: divan

References

• دیوان in Hayyim, Sulayman (1934-1936), New Persian-English dictionary (Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim)