divano Italian · revision 39125

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1529, Marin Sanudo (divan)|origins=fa دیوان}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /diˈva.no/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''divano''' ''m'' (plural divani)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|tr|divan|t=council of state]], from [[fa|دیوان|tr=dīvān|t=register; chancery, council chamber]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) In the Ottoman Empire the word named the council, then the sofa on which the councillors sat along the walls of the chamber, and the register in which their decisions were written.^(DELI 1999)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(GDLI|4, 853) In the sense “sofa” it reached Italian through [[fr|divan]] (1742), and in the sense “book of poems” through Goethe's “West-östlicher Divan” (1819).^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|1365) Wiktionary and Devoto give [[ar|دِيوَان|tr=dīwān]] as the source, from the Persian word.^(Wiktionary)^(Devoto 1968) The same Persian word is the origin of [[dogana]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(Prati 1951|384)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Marin Sanudo's diaries record ''divan'' in 1529 and ''divano'' in 1533 for the Ottoman council, at the Sublime Porte.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) Nocentini dates ''divan'' “reception hall” to 1503.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Travel writers of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Filippo Pigafetta and Pietro Della Valle, used the word for the pasha's audience and the council of state.^(GDLI|4, 853)^(DIFIT) The literary sense “collected poems of an Eastern author” appears in Vincenzo Monti in 1819, the year of Goethe's collection.^(DELI 1999)

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+ The sofa sense is first recorded in 1835 in the Milanese press: at first a long low seat without a back, with cushions, set against a wall, and today an upholstered seat for two or more people with back and arms.^(DELI 1999)^(DIFIT) Prati quotes Giusti for this sense.^(Prati 1951|384)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1503 – ''Divan'' “reception hall” (Nocentini).^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * 1529 – Marin Sanudo writes ''divan'' for the Ottoman council.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1533 – Sanudo has the form ''divano''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1742 – French ''divan'' “sofa” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1819 – Monti uses ''divano'' for a book of Eastern poetry.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1835 – ''Divano'' “sofa” appears in the Milanese press.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|sofa]], [[m|en|couch]], an upholstered seat for several people with back and arms: ''Dopo cena ci siamo addormentati sul divano.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(history)'' The council of ministers of the [[Impero ottomano|alt=Ottoman Empire]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # ''(literature)'' In Eastern literatures, a collection of an author's poems or works.^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[divanetto]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dogana]]

+ * [[sofà]]

+ * [[ottomana]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A ''divano letto'' is a sofa bed.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) [[sofà]] and [[canapè]] are synonyms.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}