دیوان

dīwān (said to be orig. dev-ān, 'an assembly of kings or great men'; and prob. fr. Zend dīv= S. िदव; A. dīwān, fr. the Persian), s.m. A royal court; a tribunal (of justice or revenue); a council of state, senate, divan; a court or hall of audience;—a minister, a chief officer of state; finance minister, head of the revenue or financial department; a secretary; a steward;—a complete series of odes or other poems by one author running through the whole alphabet (the rhymes of the first class terminating in alif, the second in be, and so on);—the collected writings of an author:—dīwān-ě-a`lā, s.m. A prime minister, a vazīr:—dīwān-ě-ḵẖāṣ, s.m. Privy-council-chamber, cabinet council:—dīwān-ě-ḵẖāliṣa, s.m. Accountant-general ofthe royal revenue, chancellor of the exchequer:—dīwān-ḵẖāna, s.m. A tribunal, office; a hall of audience, hall, court, chamber, a public room (detached from the house):—dīwān-ě-`ām, s.m. Public hall of audience.