Assertion: divan | /r/HasProperty | arabic
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text: In Islamic cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and South Asia, a Diwan (Persian: دیوان‎, divân, Arabic: ديوان‎, dīwān) is a collection of poems by one author, usually excluding his or her long poems (mathnawī).
text: DIVAN (Arabic dīwān), a Persian word, derived probably from Aramaic, meaning a “counting-house, office, bureau, tribunal”; thence, on one side, the “account-books and registers” of such an office, and, on another, the “room where the office or tribunal sits”; thence, again, from “account-book, register,” a “book containing the poems of an author,” arranged in a definite order (alphabetical according to the rhyme-words), perhaps because of the saying, “Poetry is the register (dīwān) of the Arabs,” and from “bureau, tribunal,” “a long seat, formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor or upon a raised structure or frame, with cushions to lean against” (Lane, Lexicon, 930 f.).