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noun
- 1. (in Islamic societies) a central finance department, chief administrative office, or regional governing body.
- 2. a chief treasury official, finance minister, or prime minister in some Indian states. historical
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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.
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 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. Dewan. Webster's New World. Synonyms: divan. Diwan Sentence Examples. In Indian phraseology, the company was diwan and the nawab was nazim.
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 23 Jun. 2024. Copy citation. Examples from books and articles. loading examples... Word Family. diwan.
( dɪˈwɑːn) n. 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant of dewan, divan 2, divan 3, divan 4, divan 5. 2. (Historical Terms) a variant of dewan, divan 2, divan 3, divan 4, divan 5. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
diwan. → a variant of dewan, divan (sense 2), divan (sense 3), divan (sense 4), divan (sense 5).... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Within the context of the Orientalist movement in 19 th century Western Europe, diwan refers to the most famous volume of poetry, i.e. the West- Eastern Diwan, written by Goethe in 1819 and inspired by Ottoman classics.
