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; čustʿicʿiay
      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 (bazmocʿ)
Declension
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