دیوان

See also: ديوان‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (divân).

Noun

دیوان • (dîvân)

divan (collection of poems)
divan (council of state)
court, tribunal

Descendants

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

Latin: dìvān
→ Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్‌ (divān‌)
→ Spanish: diván

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [diːˈvɒn]

Noun

Dari Persian	دیوان‎
Iranian Persian	دیوان‎
Tajiki Persian	девон (devon)

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

divan (collection of poems)
divan (council)
bureau
court, tribunal
a muster roll, a register of soldiers

Derived terms

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

Descendants

Tajik: девон (devon)
→ Arabic: ديوان‎ (dīwān) (see there for further descendants)
→ Georgian: დივანი (divani), მდივანი (mdivani)
→ Hindi: दीवान (dīvān)
- → English: dewan
- → Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్‌ (divān‌)
→ Malay: dewan
- Indonesian: dewan
→ Ottoman Turkish: دیوان‎ (dîvân) (see there for further descendants)
→ Urdu: دیوان‎ (dīvān)
→ Zazaki: diwan

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934–1936), “دیوان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “dēwān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 26

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