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n. a Muslim council chamber or law court
n. a Muslim council of state
n. a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author)
Word Usage
"What appears advisable is that we should devote this introduction to a commentary on the poems here translated; which we call a "diwan," by the way, because they are selected out of all his works."