different between davenport vs divan

English

Etymology

Sofa sense was named for the now defunct furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport Company.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dæv?np??t/

Noun

davenport (plural davenports)

1. A large sofa, especially a formal one.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

     He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.

2. A writing desk.
   • 1944, Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler Double Indemnity (screenplay)

     He crosses to the davenport to get the policies from his briefcase,

Anagrams

• provanted

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (dîvân), from Persian ?????? (divân), from Middle Persian dyw?n' (d?w?n, “archive; collected writings”), from Sumerian ???? (dub). Compare mattress, from Arabic (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans). Doublet of dewan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??væn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??væn/, /?da?.væn/

Noun

divan (plural divans)

1. (now historical) A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan).
2. The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice.
3. (now rare) Any council or assembly.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.10:

     Startled at such an unaccountable event, they sat in close divan; and concluding that the case was in all respects unnatural and prodigious, desired that a messenger might be immediately dispatched for some male practitioner in the art of midwifery.

4. A couch- or sofa-like piece of furniture made of a mattress lying against the wall and either on the floor or an elevated structure.
5. A smoking-room.
6. A collection of poems, especially one written by one author in Arabic or Persian.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Davin, Navid, viand

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Persian ?????? (divân).

Noun

divan (definite accusative divan?, plural divanlar)

1. divan (council)

Declension

Related terms

• ?hli-divan

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?van]

Noun

divan m

1. (furniture): divan

See also

• pohovka

Further reading

• divan in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• divan in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French divan, from Ottoman Turkish ??????, from Persian ??????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.v?n/
• Hyphenation: di?van

Noun

divan m (plural divans)

1. A divan (piece of furniture).

Derived terms

• divanbed
• divankleed

Related terms

• douane

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (dîvân), from Persian ?????? (divân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??/

Noun

divan m (plural divans)

1. Any type of undistinguished couch.
2. A divan in either of the original Turkish senses.

Synonyms

• (a couch): canapé (Europe), sofa

Descendants

• ? English: divan
• ? German: Diwan
• ? Portuguese: divã

Further reading

• “divan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French avant

Alternative forms

• avan

Preposition

divan

1. before
2. ahead

Etymology 2

From French vent

Preposition

divan

1. the wind

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (dîvân), from Persian ?????? (divân).

Noun

divan n (plural divane)

1. divan

See also

• canapea

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *div?n?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dî??an/
• Hyphenation: di?van

Adjective

d?van (definite d?vn?, comparative divniji, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. wonderful

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (dîvân), from Persian ?????? (divân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??a?n/
• Hyphenation: di?van

Noun

dìv?n m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. divan (furniture)
2. divan (council)
3. divan (collection of poems)
4. (historical) court, tribunal (in Ottoman period)
5. (regional) conversation, word

Declension

Derived terms

• divániti

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (dîvân), from Persian ??????, from Middle Persian d(p)yw?n' (d?w?n, “archive, collected writings”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?van/

Noun

divan (definite accusative divan?, plural divanlar)

1. divan (all senses)

Declension