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Definition of Diwan
1. Noun. A Muslim council of state.
2. Noun. A collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author).
3. Noun. A Muslim council chamber or law court.
Definition of Diwan
1. dewan [n -S] - See also: dewan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diwan
Literary usage of Diwan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"Tamanna, ^*J, author of a small diwan in Urdu. ... Tanha, 'A poetical title
of 'Abdul Latif Khan, who is the author of a diwan. Tanha, 'A poetical name of ..."
2. Cities of India by George Forrest (1903)
"In a small court leading from the quadrangle in which the diwan-i-Khas ...
is the Emperor's private mosque, the THE diwan-I-KHAS. ..."
3. Through the British Empire by Joseph Alexander Hübner (1886)
"... —diwan-i-Khas—diwan-i-Am—The Pearl Mosque—The Great Mosque—State of native
feeling—Kutub Minar—The Bidge—Delhi. Across the Punjaub. ..."
4. History of India by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Henry Miers Elliot, William Wilson Hunter, Alfred Comyn Lyall (1907)
"THE diwan -I - AAM AT DELHI. He was imprisoned for some days and subjected to
indignity. The design in this may have been (God knows! ..."
5. The Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie, K. T. by William Lee-Warner (1904)
"... force—Officers' wives not allowed to join their husbands—Smouldering embers
of disturbance—Behaviour of the Maharani—Trial and conviction of diwan ..."
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