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Definition: Diwan |
DiwanNoun1. A Muslim council of state. 2. A collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author). 3. A Muslim council chamber or law court. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DiwanSynonym: divan (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Diwan |
| Non-English Usage: "Diwan" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (davenport, divan). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Diwan (1973) | |
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Economic History | Oman | In 1975 the government established a Tender Board to handle contracts for all large government projects {except those of the Ministry of Defense, the Diwan of Royal Court, PDO, and Oman Telecommunications}. (references) |
Human Rights | Saudi Arabia | Judges are appointed by the Justice Ministry and confirmed by the Royal Diwan (Royal Court). (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The Diwan also reviews sentences passed by judges and reserves the right to return cases to the courts on appeal. (references) | |
Political Economy | Qatar | There also is an independent civilian intelligence service (Mukhabarat), which also reports directly to the Amiri Diwan. (references) |
Qatar | An independent state security investigative unit (Mubahith) which reports directly to the Amiri Diwan (the office of the Amir), performs internal security investigations, gathers intelligence, and is responsible for sedition and espionage cases. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "diwan" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Diwan | Last name | 170 | 52,123 |
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| Country | Name |
| France | Groupe Diwan |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "diwan": Diwan-i-am, Diwan-i-khas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
diwan | 14 |
diwan set | 7 |
2003 2004 brittany diwan school | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "diwan": diwans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-w" | |
-1 letter: dawn, wadi, wain, wand, wind. | |
-2 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, awn, daw, din, naw, wad, wan, win. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, an, aw, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-w" | |
+1 letter: dawing, diwans, inward, wading. | |
+2 letters: dawning, dawting, drawing, indrawn, inwards, wadding, warding, windage, windbag, windway. | |
+3 letters: antiweed, awarding, awninged, cordwain, dawdling, dawnlike, dewaxing, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, handwrit, headwind, impawned, inwalled, inwardly, inweaved, misdrawn, sandwich, swarding, tailwind, waddings, waddling, waddying, wideband, wildland, windable, windages, windbags, windfall, windflaw, windgall, windlass, windward, windways. | |
+4 letters: bandwidth, bawdiness, cordwains, dawsonite, declawing, drawknife, handiwork, handwrite, headwinds, inswathed, inwrapped, rawhiding, redrawing, rewarding, satinwood, shadowing, swaddling, tailwinds, twaddling, undrawing, unwearied, waistband, wandering, wildlands, windblast, windbreak, windfalls, windflaws, windgalls, windwards, wiredrawn, withdrawn, withstand, womanised, womanized, womankind, wristband. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 77 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. .--. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110111 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i w a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0077 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875896780 |
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