iwan

[ ee-wahn ]

noun

1. a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of iwan¹

From the Persian word īwān

Example Sentences

As answer I will give the finely just acknowledgment of Iwan Bloch on this very question.

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I wish to refer to a point of special importance now, which I find is brought forward, in this connection, by Iwan Bloch.

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Next year, too, there came a son and heir; whom they called Iwan, in honor of his Russian Great-grandfather.

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You ask me what I think of the death of poor Iwan, and of the person who ordered it.

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Iwan, son of prince Anthony Ulric, of Russia, massacred in prison by his keepers.

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