divan
英 [dɪ'væn; daɪ'væn; 'daɪvæn]
美 ['daɪvæn]
- n. 咖啡館；（無扶手和靠背的）長沙發椅；吸煙室；（東方國家的）會議廳
- n. (Divan)人名；(法)迪旺；(羅、塞、伊朗)迪萬
中文詞源
英文詞源
- divan
- divan: [16] The word divan has a long and spectacularly variegated semantic history. It started out as Persian dēvān, which originally meant ‘small book’. This came to be used specifically for ‘account book’, and eventually for ‘accountant’s office’. From this its application broadened out to cover various official chambers and the bodies which occupied them, such as tax offices, customs collectors, courts, and councils of state.
And finally it developed to ‘long seat’, of the sort which lined the walls of such Oriental chambers. The word carried these meanings with it via Arabic dīwān and Turkish divān into the European languages, and English acquired most of them as a package deal from French divan or Italian devano (it did not, however, include the ‘customs’ sense which, via the Turkish variant duwan, survives in French douane, Italian dogana, Spanish aduana, etc).
The 19th-century sense ‘smoking lounge’ seems to be an exclusively European development.
- divan (n.)
- 1580s, "Oriental council of state," from Turkish divan, from Arabic diwan, from Persian devan "bundle of written sheets, small book, collection of poems" (as in the "Divan i-Hafiz"), related to debir "writer."
Sense evolved through "book of accounts," to "office of accounts," "custom house," "council chamber," then to "long, cushioned seat," such as are found along the walls in Middle Eastern council chambers (see couch). The sofa/couch sense was taken into English 1702; the "book of poems" sense in 1823.
雙語例句
- 1. Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
- 亨利勳爵伸手攤腳地躺在沙發椅上,笑著.
來自辭典例句
- 2. Lord Heney stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
- 亨利勳爵伸手攤腳地躺在沙發上,笑著.
來自辭典例句
- 3. She noticed that Muffat was sitting resignedly on a narrow divan - bed.
- 她看見莫法正垂頭喪氣地坐在一張不寬的坐床上.
來自辭典例句
- 4. He started again after having some coffee in a divan.
- 在一個咖啡館裏喝了些咖啡後他又出發了.
來自互聯網
- 5. It was round , and a large divan completely encircled it.
- 這個房間陳設得很簡單,卻很華麗.
來自互聯網