See also: ديوان

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian دیوان (divân).

Noun

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دیوان (dîvân)

  1. divan (collection of poems)
  2. divan (council of state)
  3. court, tribunal
  4. An administrative unit consisting of a few villages in the Ottoman Empire.

Descendants

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Persian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dēwān
Dari reading? dēwān
Iranian reading? divân
Tajik reading? devon
  • Audio (Iran):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

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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
  6. sofa, couch

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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