ایوان

Ottoman Turkish

ایوان

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ایوان (eyvân, “porch, portico, iwan”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾdywn' /⁠ēwan⁠/, “stalk, trunk”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴 (apadāna).

Noun

ایوان • (eyvan) (definite accusative ایوانی (eyvanı), plural ایوانلر (eyvanlar))

1. iwan, a large, vaulted chamber or hall with a monumental arched opening on one side

Derived terms

• ایوان زركاری (eyvan-ı zerkârî, “the sky”)
• ایوان سیمابی (eyvan-ı sîmabî, “the sky”)
• ایوان ماه (eyvan-ı mâh, “the lunar sphere”)

Descendants

• Turkish: eyvan
• → Armenian: էյվան (ēyvan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eyvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1530
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایوان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 97a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 229
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 105
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 618
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eyvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 312

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaj.ˈwɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ej.vɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäj.vɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	aywān
Dari reading?	aywān
Iranian reading?	eyvân
Tajik reading?	ayvon

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾdywn' /⁠ēwan⁠/, “stalk, trunk”) Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫀𐫏𐫇𐫗 (ʾʾywn /⁠āywan⁠/, “palace”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴 (apadāna).

Noun

ایوان • (eyvân) (plural ایوان‌ها (eyvân-hâ))

1. (archaic) palace
2. porch
3. portico
4. iwan
5. balcony
6. veranda

Descendants

• Tajik: айвон (ayvon)
• → Arabic: إيوان (ʔīwān)
  • → English: iwan, liwan
• → Armenian: այվան (ayvan)
• → Azerbaijani: eyvan
• → Georgian: აივანი (aivani)
• → Gujarati: ઐવાન (aivān), એવાન (evān)
• → Kazakh: айуан (aiuan)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: eywan, êwan, (less commonly) heywan, hêwan

  Central Kurdish: ئەیوان (aywān), ئێوان (ēwān)

• → Kyrgyz: айван (ayvan)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ऐवान (aivān)

  Urdu: ایوان (aivān)

  • → Punjabi: اَیْوَان (aivān)
• → Old Azari: ایوان (/⁠aywān⁠/)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ایوان (eyvan)
  • Turkish: eyvan
  • → Armenian: էյվան (ēyvan)
• → Russian: айван (ajvan)
  • → Belarusian: айван (ajvan)
  • → Ukrainian: айва́н (ajván), ейван (ejvan)
• → Uzbek: ayvon
• → Zazaki: eywan (/⁠aywān⁠/)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian Иван (Ivan).

Proper noun

ایوان • (ivân)

1. a male given name, Ivan, from Russian

Related terms

• ایوانویچ (ivânevič)
• ایوانوف (ivânof)

References

• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾʾywn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَیْوَان (aywān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɛː.ʋɑːn/

Noun

اَیوان • (aivān) m (Hindi spelling ऐवान)

1. hall
2. palace

   Synonym: مَحَل (mahal)

3. chamber
4. porch
5. gallery

Related terms

• ایوانِ عدالت (aivān-e-adālat, “courthouse”)
• ایوانِ صدر (aivān-e-sadar, “presidential palace, president's house”)
• ایوانِ بالا (aivān-e-bālā, “upper house, upper chamber, Senate”)
• ایوانِ زیریں (aivān-e-zerī̃, “lower house, lower chamber, National Assembly”)
• ایوانِ نمائندگان (aivān-e-numāindagān, “House of Representatives”)
• ایوانِ سفید (aivān-e-safed, “White House”)
• قائدِ ایوان (qāid-e-aivān, “leader of parliament or assembly, head of legislative assembly, leader of the house”)

References

• “ایوان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.