दीवान

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (dīwān, dēwān), from Middle Persian d(p)ywʾn' (dēwān, “archive, collected writings”). Doublet of लिपि (lipi).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪iː.ʋɑːn/, [d̪iː.ʋä̃ːn]

Noun

दीवान • (dīvān) m (Urdu spelling دیوان)

royal court, tribunal
minister of state, divan
divan (collection of poems)

Declension

Declension of दीवान (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दीवान dīvān	दीवान dīvān
oblique	दीवान dīvān	दीवानों dīvānõ
vocative	दीवान dīvān	दीवानो dīvāno

Derived terms

दीवानख़ाना (dīvānxānā)
दीवानगिरी (dīvāngirī)
दीवानगी (dīvāngī)

Descendants

→ English: dewan
→ Telugu: దివాను (divānu), దివాన్ (divān‌)

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दीवान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 500

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