英文词源
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- divan
- divan: [16] The word divan has a long and spectacularly variegated semantic history. It started out as Persian dēvān, which originally meant ‘small book’. This came to be used specifically for ‘account book’, and eventually for ‘accountant’s office’. From this its application broadened out to cover various official chambers and the bodies which occupied them, such as tax offices, customs collectors, courts, and councils of state.
And finally it developed to ‘long seat’, of the sort which lined the walls of such Oriental chambers. The word carried these meanings with it via Arabic dīwān and Turkish divān into the European languages, and English acquired most of them as a package deal from French divan or Italian devano (it did not, however, include the ‘customs’ sense which, via the Turkish variant duwan, survives in French douane, Italian dogana, Spanish aduana, etc).
The 19th-century sense ‘smoking lounge’ seems to be an exclusively European development.
中文词源
该词来自于1824年，因报社日益强大的社会影响力而得名。estate, 等级，地位，尤指在政治上和社会上有影响力的集团。在英国，the three estates指宗教人员，爵位者，平民。在中国，士农工商。在印度，种姓，等级制度(caste)。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：the fourth estate 词源，the fourth estate 含义。
