# ایوان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ایوان (eyvân, “porch, portico, iwan”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾdywn' /⁠ēwan⁠/, “stalk, trunk”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴 (apadāna).

### Noun

ایوان • (eyvan) (definite accusative ایوانی (eyvanı), plural ایوانلر (eyvanlar))
* iwan, a large, vaulted chamber or hall with a monumental arched opening on one side

#### Derived terms

* ایوان زركاری (eyvan-ı zerkârî, “the sky”)
* ایوان سیمابی (eyvan-ı sîmabî, “the sky”)
* ایوان ماه (eyvan-ı mâh, “the lunar sphere”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: eyvan
* → Armenian: էյվան (ēyvan)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eyvan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1530
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایوان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 97a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 229
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 105
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 618
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eyvan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 312

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔaj.ˈwɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäj.wɑ́ːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäj.wɔ́ːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ej.vɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäj.vɔ́n]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾdywn' /⁠ēwan⁠/, “stalk, trunk”) Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫀𐫏𐫇𐫗 (ʾʾywn /⁠āywan⁠/, “palace”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎭𐎠𐎴 (apadāna).

#### Noun

ایوان • (eyvân) (plural ایوان‌ها (eyvân-hâ))
* (archaic) palace
* porch
* portico
* iwan
* balcony
* veranda

##### Descendants

* Tajik: айвон (ayvon)
* → Arabic: إيوان (ʔīwān)
** → English: iwan, liwan
* → Armenian: այվան (ayvan)
* → Azerbaijani: eyvan
* → Georgian: აივანი (aivani)
* → Gujarati: ઐવાન (aivān), એવાન (evān)
* → Kazakh: айуан (aiuan)
* → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: eywan, êwan, (less commonly) heywan, hêwan
    Central Kurdish: ئەیوان (aywān), ئێوان (ēwān)
* → Kyrgyz: айван (ayvan)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ऐवान (aivān)
    Urdu: ایوان (aivān)
** → Punjabi: اَیْوَان (aivān)
* → Old Azari: ایوان (/⁠aywān⁠/)
* → Ottoman Turkish: ایوان (eyvan)
** Turkish: eyvan
** → Armenian: էյվան (ēyvan)
* → Russian: айван (ajvan)
** → Belarusian: айван (ajvan)
** → Ukrainian: айва́н (ajván), ейван (ejvan)
* → Uzbek: ayvon
* → Zazaki: eywan (/⁠aywān⁠/)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian Иван (Ivan).

#### Proper noun

ایوان • (ivân)
* a male given name, Ivan, from Russian

##### Related terms

* ایوانویچ (ivânevič)
* ایوانوف (ivânof)

### References

* Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾʾywn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَیْوَان (aywān).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɛː.ʋɑːn/

### Noun

اَیوان • (aivān) m (Hindi spelling ऐवान)
* hall
* palace
    Synonym: مَحَل (mahal)
* chamber
* porch
* gallery

#### Related terms

* ایوانِ عدالت (aivān-e-adālat, “courthouse”)
* ایوانِ صدر (aivān-e-sadar, “presidential palace, president's house”)
* ایوانِ بالا (aivān-e-bālā, “upper house, upper chamber, Senate”)
* ایوانِ زیریں (aivān-e-zerī̃, “lower house, lower chamber, National Assembly”)
* ایوانِ نمائندگان (aivān-e-numāindagān, “House of Representatives”)
* ایوانِ سفید (aivān-e-safed, “White House”)
* قائدِ ایوان (qāid-e-aivān, “leader of parliament or assembly, head of legislative assembly, leader of the house”)

### References

* “ایوان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.