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de-wan

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de⋅wan

[di-wahn, -wawn]
–noun
(in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
Also, diwan.


Origin:
1680–90; < Hindi: minister (of state) < Pers dēvan register; see divan
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