Diwan (Persian دیوان), also transliterated as Deewan or Divan, is a Persian word used also in to Arabic (Arabic: الدیوان) and Turkish, and was borrowed also at an earlier date into Armenian.^[1] Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ...

The term derived from Pahlavi referring to a collection of poems by a single author; it may be a 'selected works', or the whole body of work of an Persian, Urdu or Ottoman Turkish poet. Thus Diwan-e-Mir, and so on. It is also worth mentioning that the most famous work with this word as its title is actually the fictional collection of poetry called Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i by Rumi, ostensibly by Shams Tabrizi. The introduction of the term is attributed to Rudaki. Middle Persian or Pahlavi is the Iranian language spoken during Sassanian times. ... Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... The Ottoman Turks were the ethnic subdivision of the Turkish people who dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. ... Mir Taqi Mir was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. ... Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i or Diwan i Shams is Moulana Rumis masterpiece in the Persian language, a collection of poems that contains more than 40,000 verses. ... Rumi (born November 29, 1982) is a Persian-Canadian Singer-songwriter and a Photographer who is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Shams Tabrizi in a circa 1503 copy of his disciple Rumi´s poem, the Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i Shams-e-Tabrizi (شمس تبریزی) (d. ... Rudaki depicted as a blind poet, here on this Iranian stamp. ...

It has also been applied in a similar way to collections of Hebrew poetry and to poetry of al-Andalus Hebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language. ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ...

References

1. Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. Dīvān, VOLUME 7 FASCICLE 4.

See also

• Persian literature
• Ottoman poetry
• Poetic meter of Ottoman Turkish

Persian literature (in Persian: ‎ ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. ...

External links

• www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com/Edebiyat/, with many examples of Ottoman Divan poetry