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

Descendants

• Turkish: divan
• → Azerbaijani: divan
• → Czech: divan
• → French: divan
  • → English: divan
  • → German: Diwan
  • → Portuguese: divã
• → Greek: διβάνι (diváni), ντιβάνι (ntiváni)
• → Hungarian: díván
• → Italian: divano, diwan
• → Middle Armenian: տիւան (tiwan)
  • Armenian: դիվան (divan)
• → Polish: dywan
• → Romanian: divan
• → Russian: дива́н (diván)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дѝва̄н

  Latin script: dìvān

• → Bulgarian: дива̀н (divàn)
• → Spanish: diván

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Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	d
Dari reading?	d
Iranian reading?	d
Tajik reading?	d

• Audio:

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• 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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Tajik: девон (devon)
• → Arabic: ديوان (dīwān)
  • Andalusian Arabic: ديوان (dīwān), *دوان (*duwān)
    • → Catalan: duana
    • → Portuguese: aduana
    • → Spanish: aduana
      • → Basque: aduana
      • → Hiligaynon: aduana
      • → Tagalog: adwana
      • → Waray-Waray: adwana
    • → Medieval Latin: doana, dogana, dovana
      • → Albanian: doganë
      • → Italian: dogana
      • → Old French: dohanne
        • Middle French: doana
          • French: douane
            • → Algerian Arabic: الدِّيوَانَة (ad_dīwāna)
            • → Dutch: douane
              • Afrikaans: doeane
              • → Indonesian: duane
              • → Papiamentu: doeana
            • → English: douane
        • Norman: douanne
• → Georgian: დივანი (divani), მდივანი (mdivani)
• → Hindi: दीवान (dīvān)
  • → English: dewan
  • → Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్ (divān‌)
• → Malay: dewan
  • Indonesian: dewan
• → Ottoman Turkish: دیوان (dîvân)
  • Turkish: divan
  • → Azerbaijani: divan
  • → Czech: divan
  • → French: divan
    • → English: divan
    • → German: Diwan
    • → Portuguese: divã
  • → Greek: διβάνι (diváni), ντιβάνι (ntiváni)
  • → Hungarian: díván
  • → Italian: divano, diwan
  • → Middle Armenian: տիւան (tiwan)
    • Armenian: դիվան (divan)
  • → Polish: dywan
  • → Romanian: divan
  • → Russian: дива́н (diván)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дѝва̄н

    Latin script: dìvān

  • → Bulgarian: дива̀н (divàn)
  • → Spanish: diván
• → Urdu: دیوان (dīvān)
• → Zazaki: diwan

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