դիվան

Partly a learned borrowing from Old Armenian դիւան (diwan) and partly from Middle Armenian տիւան (tiwan), from Ottoman Turkish دیوان (dîvân).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /diˈvɑn/, [divɑ́n]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tiˈvɑn/, [tʰivɑ́n]

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; čustʻicʻiay

     տիվան (tivan) = giustizia

5. (archaic) office, workplace
6. (archaic) library

• դիւան (diwan), տիւան (tiwan) — traditional orthography
• տիվան (tivan) — Western Armenian

• դիվանագետ (divanaget)

From Russian дива́н (diván).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /diˈvɑn/, [divɑ́n]
  • (Eastern Armenian, colloquial) IPA^(key): /d͡ziˈvɑn/, [d͡zivɑ́n]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tiˈvɑn/, [tʰivɑ́n]

դիվան • (divan)

1. (colloquial) sofa, couch

   Synonym: բազմոց (bazmocʻ)