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单词 dewan
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dewann.

/diːˈwɑːn/
Forms: Also duan, diwan, deewaun, dewaun, dēwān.
Etymology: Arabic and Persian dīwān, dīvān, Persian formerly dēvān , the same word as divan n., of which an early sense was ‘register’. Through the application to a register of accounts, and the financial department of a state, the word has in India been individualized and applied to the minister or officer over this department.
In India: (a) the head financial minister or treasurer of a state under former Muslim governments; (b) the prime minister of a native state; (c) the chief native officer of certain Government establishments, such as the Mint; (d) (in Bengal) a native servant in charge of the affairs of a house of business or a large domestic establishment, a steward. (Yule and Burnell.)
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1669 London Gaz. No. 415/1 Carrying a Letter to the Duan.
1690 J. Charnock et al. Let. in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 240/1 Fearing miscarriage of ye Originall ffarcutteewe have herewth Sent you a Coppy Attested by Hugly Cazee, hoping ye Duan may be Sattisfied therewth.
1766 J. Z. Holwell Interesting Hist. Events: Pt. 1 (ed. 2) 74 A Gentoo named Allum Chund, who had been many years Dewan to Soujah Khan.
1771 in Gleig Mem. W. Hastings (1841) I. 221 Divesting him of the rank and influence he holds as Naib Duan of the Kingdom of Bengal.
1786 Blane in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 297 Making the enquiries I wished..from his Dewan or Minister.
1804 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 156 The English Company..has forfeited its rights as dewan and treasurer of the Empire.
1806 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) Introd. p. cii Scindiah's minister..was the Peshwah's dewan.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. i. 18 Appointed duan (or controller of the revenues) of Bengal.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 513 He sent, on a commission to Calcutta his duan or treasurer.
1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara III. iii. 226 The Hindoo Dewans of Sinde now transact the entire pecuniary concerns of the state.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India I. i. vi. 142 Subordinate to the subahdar..was an officer, with the title of dewan or diwan, who had the superintendence of all matters of revenue and finance.
1871 S. Mateer Travancore 22 Colonel Munro..acted for about three years in the capacity of Dewan, or Prime Minister.

Derivatives

deˈwanage n. dewanship.
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1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 29/1 The Duanage became annexed to the Nabobship.
deˈwanee n. = dewani n.
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1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 213 The duanee, or collection, receipt and disbursement of the revenue.
deˈwanship n. = dewani n.
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dewanship1789
1789 H. Mustafa tr. Ghulam Husain Khan Sëir Mutaqherin II. 384 [Lord Clive] visited the Vezir..and asked that the Company should be invested with the Divanship of the three provinces.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iv. 469 Procuring for the donor, the duanship of the Zemindary.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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