दीवाना

Hindi

FWOTD – 16 July 2017

Alternative forms

• दिवाना (divānā)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دیوانه (dēwāna), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyw'nk' /⁠dēwānag⁠/, “demonic; crazy, insane”). Compare Bengali দেওয়ানা (deōẇana), Gujarati દીવાનું (dīvānũ), Marathi दिवाणे (divāṇe), Punjabi ਦਿਵਾਨਾ (divānā), ਦੀਵਾਨਾ (dīvānā).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪iː.ʋɑː.nɑː/, [d̪iː.ʋäː.näː]

Adjective

दीवाना • (dīvānā) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ)

1. crazy, insane, mad

   Synonym: पागल (pāgal)

   मेरा दिल तेरे लिए दीवाना हो गया है।

   merā dil tere lie dīvānā ho gayā hai.

   My heart is crazy about you.

   • 1997, Sonu Nigam, "Yeh Dil Deewana" in Pardes :

     यह दिल दीवाना
     दीवाना है यह दिल

     yah dil dīvānā
     dīvānā hai yah dil

     This heart is crazy
     mad is this heart

Noun

दीवाना • (dīvānā) m (Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ)

1. lover

   Synonyms: प्रेमी (premī), आशिक़ (āśiq), मजनूँ (majnū̃), साजन (sājan), प्रीतम (prītam)

2. madman, a crazy person

   Synonym: पगला (paglā)

Declension

Declension of दीवाना (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दीवाना dīvānā	दीवाने dīvāne
oblique	दीवाने dīvāne	दीवानों dīvānõ
vocative	दीवाने dīvāne	दीवानो dīvāno

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दीवाना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press