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单词 divan
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divann.

/dɪˈvan//dʌɪˈvan//ˈdʌɪvan/
Forms: Also 1500s douan, 1600s dyvan, divano, 1600s–1700s duan(a, 1600s–1800s diwan, 1800s dewan, deewan.
Etymology: A word originally Persian, dēvān , now dīwān , in Arabic pronounced dīwān , diwān ; in Turkish divān , whence in many European languages, Italian divano , Spanish divan , Portuguese divan , French divan . Originally, in early use, a brochure, or fascicle of written leaves or sheets, hence a collection of poems, also a muster-roll or register (of soldiers, persons, accounts, taxes, etc.); a military pay-book, an account-book; an office of accounts, a custom-house; a tribunal of revenue or of justice; a court; a council of state, senate; a council-chamber, a (cushioned) bench. The East Indian form and use of the word is given under dewan n. Another European form, older than divan , and apparently directly < Arabic, is Italian dovana , doana , now dogana , French douane (in 15th cent. douwaine ), custom-house: see douane n.
1.
a. An Islamic council of state; spec. in Turkey, the privy council of the Porte, presided over by the Sultan, or in his absence by the grand vizier.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun]
hustinga1030
Great Councilc1275
council1297
parliamentc1300
privy councilc1390
divan1586
Council of State1611
legislative council1651
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > oriental
divan1586
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 679 In Turkie the councell is kept fouer daies in a week by the Bassaes wheresoeuer the prince soiourneth... In this councell called Diuan..audience is open to euery one.
a1597 R. Wrag in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 305 Requesting the ambassador within an houre after to goe to the Douan of the Vizir.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 252 Mahomet being dead, the three great Bassaes..called a Diuano or counsell for the warres, as if the king had been aliue.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ix. xii. §6 He comes no more at the Duana, except hee bee called.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2230/1 Proposals have been made for these two Months last past in the Divan.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea III. xxix. 199 The divan declared for the continuation of the peace.
1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos ii. xviii. 326 In full Divan the despot scoffed.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 366/2 Upon its conquest by the Turks, Tunis was governed by a Turkish basha and a divan, or council of military men.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet II. lvii. 487 The Moslem Caliph at Damascus had now his divan, in imitation of the Persian monarch.
b. transferred. A council in general.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting
synagoguea1300
councilc1340
collect1382
convent1382
convocation1387
samingc1400
advocationa1425
meetingc1425
steven1481
congress1528
concion1533
conference1575
collection1609
congression1611
divan1619
rendezvous1628
comitia1631
society1712
majlis1821
get-up1826
agora1886
1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxxviii. 770 This (what Diuano would haue done it?) is too weightie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 457 The great consulting Peers, Rais'd from thir dark Divan . View more context for this quotation
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 903 The consult of the dire Divan.
1763 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) IV. 130 Of the British Senate, of that august divan whose wisdom influences, [etc.].
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. xii. 282 To meet the family..in full divan.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 324 The changeless decree of Heaven's Deewàn.
2. The hall where the Turkish divan is held; a court of justice; a council-chamber.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court in Turkey
divana1597
a1597 R. Wrag in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 305 Certaine Chauses conducted him to the Douan, which is the seat of Justice.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 157 The rigour of the Caddies or Causæ in the Divanoes, or Iudgement Hals.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 46 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Under this Gate is the Diwan, or the place of publick Judicature.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Chiosk at Pera in Poems 'Till at the dread Divan the slow procession ends.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 548 The officers of state went into the divan, or hall of audience, where the sultan always assisted in person.
3. Originally: a long seat consisting of a continued step, bench, or raised part of the floor, against the wall of a room, which may be furnished with cushions, so as to form a kind of sofa or couch. Now usually: a low bed or couch with no back or ends.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > other sofas or couches
bed-loft1606
Persian bed1654
divana1701
bergère1762
stibadium1840
deacon-seat1851
tuxedo sofa1895
Davenport1897
Chesterfield1900
Madame Récamier1923
Récamier1923
contour couch1952
incliner1978
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > without posts or ends
French bed1596
French bedstead1638
stump bedstead1823
stump bed1841
stump1875
divan1954
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 29 These Duans are a sort of low stages..elevated about sixteen or eighteen inches or more, above the floar... Upon these the Turks eat, sleep, smoake, receive visits, say their prayers, &c.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant ix. 32 Their greatest Magnificence consists in their Divans or Sofas.
1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. xix. vi. 265 The Hebrew word mittah, which is here translated ‘bed’ may be understood of a divan.
1813 Edinb. Rev. 21 133 The divan is that part of the chamber which is raised by a step above the rest of the floor, and which, is commonly surmounted by a couch..placed along the wall.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 148 The bed being soft and comfortable, Mr. Quilp determined to use it, both as a sleeping place by night and as a kind of Divan by day.
1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xiv. 103 The Aga conducted me to the divan where he himself sat.
1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xxix. 129 I had a divan in my sitting-room, and could very well sleep on that.
1954 ‘V. H. Collins’ One Word & Another 47 A divan is an upholstered piece of furniture... It can be used as a bed (often called divan-bed) in a bedroom, or as a settee in the day and a bed at night.
1965 M. Forster Bogeyman x. 175 The cover over her divan was red and white striped cotton.
4. A room having one side entirely open towards a court, garden, river, or other prospect.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others
hell1310
summer hall1388
summer parloura1425
paradise1485
fire room1591
garden room1619
ease-room1629
portcullis1631
divan1678
but?1700
sluttery1711
rotunda1737
glass casea1777
dungeon1782
hall of mirrors1789
balcony-chamber1800
showroom1820
mirror room1858
vomitorium1923
mosquito room1925
refuge room1937
quiet room1938
Florida room1968
roomset1980
wet room1982
1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. vii. 49 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. On the side that looks toward the River there is a Divan, or a kind of out-jutting Balcone, where the King sits to see his Brigantines.
1759 London Mag. 28 605 In Surat..They [the Moors] have generally a kind of saloon which they call a diwan, entirely open on one side to the garden.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. vii. 307 The great rooms of state are upstairs..open at one side like Mahometan divans.
5. A name sometimes given to a smoking-room furnished with lounges, in connection with a cigar-shop or bar, as cigar-divan; hence, a fancy name for a cigar-shop.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling tobacco
tobacco-shop1605
smoke-shop1798
cigar-divan1847
tabac1918
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > smoking room
tobacco-room1656
smoke-hole1673
smoking-room1689
divan1847
smoke-room1883
smoking lounge1951
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 222 Mr. Toots had furnished a choice set of apartments; had established among them a sporting bower,..and a divan, which made him poorly.
1855 A. Trollope Warden xvi. 267 Mr. Harding had not a much correcter notion of a cigar divan than he had of a London dinner-house.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xx. 179 Mr. Trenchard..said to Endymion, ‘We are going to the divan. Do you smoke?’
6. A Persian name for a collection of poems (Persian, Arabic, Hindustani, Turkish); spec. a series of poems by one author, the rhymes of which usually run through the whole alphabet. [ < the original sense ‘collection of written sheets’, perhaps influenced by later uses of the word.]
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems > title of
Parnassus1600
catalects1610
sylva1636
Mu'allaqat1772
divan1823
1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) I. ii. 61 A perfect divan, in their eyes, was that in which the poet had regularly pursued in his rhymes, all the letters of the alphabet.
a1827 J. M. Good in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. 6 Persian poets..distinguish their separate poems..by the name of gazels, and the entire set..by that of diwan.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 42/1.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 292/2 The most important diwans are those of..Hafiz, Saadi, and Jami among the Persians. The plan has been imitated by Goethe in his ‘West-östlicher Divan’.
1886 Athenæum 18 Dec. 820/1 Complete Divans of the great poetical triumvirate, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, and Jehuda Halevi.

Compounds

General attributive.
divan-bed n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > couch or settle used as bed
couch-bed1625
settle bed1641
couch-bedsteada1753
studio couch1903
studio bed1924
divan-bed1933
sleep sofa1973
1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 99 A leather-and-oak ‘daven-bed’ had obviously and literally been dragged to the least conspicuous corner.]
1933 Discovery Aug. 254/2 There is a divan-bed opposite the window.
divan-cover n.
ΚΠ
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 217/2 Box-shape divan cover.
divan-day n.
ΚΠ
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio iii. 26 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) The Divan-dayes [that is to say, upon Council-dayes].
divan-hall n.
ΚΠ
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio iv. 30 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) All these Officers come into the Divan-Hall, at four in the Morning.
divan-seat n.
ΚΠ
1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer 11 There are circular recesses at each side of the fireplace, with divan seats running round them.
divan-sofa n.
ΚΠ
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 141 An abundance of velvet ‘settees’, or divan sofas.

Derivatives

divaned adj. furnished with divans (sense 3).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [adjective] > furnished with sofas
sofaed1789
divaned1847
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. v. ii. 50 Some strolled into the divaned chambers.
1852 G. W. Curtis Wanderer in Syria 300 Alcoves..divanned with luxurious stuffs.
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