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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Classical Persian دیوان (dēwān).

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  • IPA(key): [diˈvan]
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  • Rhymes: -an

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дива́н (divánm

  1. (furniture) sofa, couch, divan

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Dungan

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  • IPA(key): /ti²⁴ væ̃²⁴/

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диван (divan) (I-I)

  1. divan

Macedonian

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Persian دیوان (divân).

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диван (divanm (plural дивани)

  1. divan (furniture)
  2. (historical) divan (council)

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  • Koneski, Kiril (1999) “диван”, in Правописен речник на македонскиот литературен јазик (Pravopisen rečnik na makedonskiot literaturen jazik) [Orthographic Dictionary of the Macedonian literary language] (in Macedonian), "Prosvetno delo", page 77
  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “диван”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language]‎[1] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 47

Russian

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Красный диван

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Persian دیوان (divân); ultimately from a combination of Sumerian 𒁾 (dub, clay tablet)) + Old Persian *vahana- (house), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (to dwell), whence English was and vestal.

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дива́н (divánm inan (genitive дива́на, nominative plural дива́ны, genitive plural дива́нов, relational adjective дива́нный, diminutive дива́нчик)

  1. (furniture) sofa, couch, divan
    • 1836, Николай Гоголь, “II”, in Нос; English translation from Claud Field, transl., The Nose, 1916:
      Взошедши в переднюю, увидел он на кожаном запачканном диване лакея своего Ивана, который, лёжа на спине, плевал в потолок и попадал довольно удачно в одно и то же место.
      Vzošedši v perednjuju, uvidel on na kožanom zapačkannom divane lakeja svojevo Ivana, kotoryj, ljóža na spine, pleval v potolok i popadal dovolʹno udačno v odno i to že mesto.
      In the vestibule he saw his valet Ivan stretched on the leather couch and amusing himself by spitting at the ceiling, which he did very cleverly, hitting every time the same spot.
  2. (historical) divan, diwan (the council of state in a Muslim country)
  3. (poetry) divan, diwan (a collection of poems)

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  • Armenian: դիվան (divan)
  • Kildin Sami: диванн (divann)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *divьnъ.

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  • IPA(key): /dîːʋan/
  • Hyphenation: ди‧ван

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ди̑ван (Latin spelling dȋvan, definite ди̑внӣ, comparative дивнији)

  1. wonderful
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Persian دیوان (divân).

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  • IPA(key): /dǐʋaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ди‧ван

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дѝва̄н m (Latin spelling dìvān)

  1. divan (furniture)
  2. divan (council)
  3. divan (collection of poems)
  4. (historical) court, tribunal (in Ottoman period)
  5. (regional) conversation, word
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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân), from Persian دیوان (divân).

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дива́н (dyvánm inan (genitive дива́на, nominative plural дива́ни, genitive plural дива́нів)

  1. (furniture) sofa, couch, divan
  2. (historical) divan, diwan (the council of state in a Muslim country)

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