دیوان

See also: ديوان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (divân).

Noun

دیوان • (dîvân)

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

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
→ Macedonian: диван (divan)
→ 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

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /deː.ˈwaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪iː.vɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪e.vɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dēwān
Dari reading^?	dēwān
Iranian reading^?	divân
Tajik reading^?	devon

Audio (Iran): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

دیوان • (dēwān / divân) (plural دیوان‌ها (dēwān-hā / divân-hâ), Tajik spelling девон)

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

→ Arabic: ديوان (dīwān)
- Andalusian Arabic: ديوان (dīwān), *دوان (*duwān)
  - → Catalan: duana
  - → Occitan: doana
  - → 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
→ Azerbaijani: divan
→ Bengali: দেওয়ান (deōẇan)
→ Georgian: დივანი (divani), მდივანი (mdivani)
→ Hindi: दीवान (dīvān)
- → English: dewan
- → Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్ (divān‌)
→ Malay: dewan
- > Indonesian: dewan (inherited)
→ 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
- → Macedonian: диван (divan)
- → 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