ایوان
Ottoman Turkish
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))
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] (in French), 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.ˈwaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔej.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)
Descendants
- Tajik: айвон (ayvon)
- → Arabic: إيوان (ʔīwān)
- → 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)
- → Uzbek: ayvon
- → Zazaki: eywan (/aywān/)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Russian Иван (Ivan).
Proper noun
ایوان • (ivân)
- 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)
Related terms
- ایوانِ بالا (aivān-e-bālā, “upper house, upper chamber, Senate”)
- ایوانِ زیریں (aivān-e-zerī̃, “lower house, lower chamber, National Assembly”)
- ایوانِ سفید (aivān-e-safed, “White House”)
- ایوانِ صدر (aivān-e-sadar, “presidential palace, president's house”)
- ایوانِ عدالت (aivān-e-adālat, “courthouse”)
- ایوانِ نمائندگان (aivān-e-numāindagān, “House of Representatives”)
- 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.