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Dewan (also known as diwan, sometimes spelled devan or divan) designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A dewan was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan ).
Diwan (title) (dewan or divan), a number of Middle Eastern titles used in various languages for high officials, especially of cabinet rank, or as a rank of high nobility in South Asia. List of Diwans of Mysore. Diwan of Hyderabad. Dewan Bahadur, a title of honor awarded during British Raj.
Diwan definition: a variant of dewan, divan (def. 2), divan (def. 3), divan (def. 4), divan (def. 5). See examples of DIWAN used in a sentence.
Diwan (poetry) A Mughal scribe and Daulat, his illustrator, from a manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, one of the most famous Persian diwan collections. In Islamic cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily [1] and South Asia, a Diwan ( Persian: دیوان, divân, Arabic: ديوان, dīwān) is a collection of poems by one author ...
divan, in Islamic societies, a “register,” or logbook, and later a “finance department,” “government bureau,” or “administration.”. The first divan appeared under the caliph ʿUmar I (634–644) as a pensions list, recording free Arab warriors entitled to a share of the spoils of war.
noun. a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) synonyms: divan. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Diwan." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/diwan. Accessed 01 Jul. 2024. Copy citation. Examples from books and articles. loading examples... Word Family. diwan.
diwan. → a variant of dewan, divan (sense 2), divan (sense 3), divan (sense 4), divan (sense 5).... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
