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- Dictionarydiwan/dɪˈwɑːn/
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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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.
The English usage of the phrase "diwan poetry" comes from the Arabic word diwan (دیوان), which is loaned from Persian, and designated a list or register. The Persian word derived from the Persian dibir meaning writer or scribe. Diwan was also borrowed into Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish.
IPA guide. Other forms: diwans. Definitions of diwan. noun. a Muslim council of state. synonyms: divan. see more. noun. a Muslim council chamber or law court.
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.
diwan. → a variant of dewan, divan (sense 2), divan (sense 3), divan (sense 4), divan (sense 5).... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
( 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.
May 8, 2018 · The term diwan has been used to mean all of the following: * A collection of poetry or prose written by one author. * A register of census, from the Arabic awwana, to collect.
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.
