դիվան

Armenian

Etymology 1

Partly a learned borrowing from Old Armenian դիւան (diwan) and partly from Middle Armenian տիւան (tiwan), from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân).

Pronunciation

Noun

դիվան • (divan)

  1. (archaic) archive
  2. (historical) divan (council)
  3. (historical) divan (collection of poems)
  4. (dialectal) court, tribunal
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 59:[1]
      տիվան․ ճուսթիցիայ
      tivan; čustʻicʻiay
      տիվան (tivan) = giustizia
  5. (archaic) office, workplace
  6. (archaic) library
Declension
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Derived terms

References

  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 245

Etymology 2

From Russian дива́н (diván).

Pronunciation

Noun

դիվան • (divan)

  1. (colloquial) sofa, couch
    Synonym: բազմոց (bazmocʻ)
Declension
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