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إِِيوَانٌ إِيوان ايوان and ↓ إِِوَانٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) [each] a foreign word, [i. e. Persian,] (M,) A chamber, or an apartment, (T, Msb,) or a large صُفَّة [i. e. porch, or roofed vestibule, or the like], (S, K,) similar to an أَزَج [or oblong arched or vaulted structure, or a portico], (T, S, M, K,) or built in the form of an أَزَج, (Msb,) not closed in the front, or face: (T, M, Msb: *) [and a palace; often used in this sense in Arabic as well as in Persian: and in the present day, the former, and more commonly لِيوَان, which is Persian, is also applied to an estrade; a slightly-raised portion of the floor, generally extending nearly from the door to the end, or to each end, of a room:] pl. of the former, أَوَاوِينُ, (T, S, K,) because the sing. is originally إِِوْوَانٌ, (S,) and إِِيوَانَاتٌ; and pl. of the latter, أُونٌ. (T, S, K.) Hence, إِِيوَانُ كِسْرَى [The great porch, or the palace, of Kisrà, or Chosroes, who is called صَاحِبُ الإِِيوَانِ]. (T, S, Msb.) ― -b2- Also the latter, [and app., accord. to the Msb, the former also,] Any prop, or support, of a thing: (T, Msb:) particularly, a pole of a [tent of the kind called] خِبَآء. (T.) ― -b3- The إِِيوَان of the لِجَام [is The headstall of the bridle; and] has for its pl. إِِيوَانَاتٌ. (T, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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