diwan

Other forms of diwan

plural

diwans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diwan

What does diwan mean?

diwan means "a Muslim council of state". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diwan?

diwan has 2 syllables: di-wan. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for diwan?

Close synonyms include divan, divan, divan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diwan a common word?

diwan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.