Word.ws English Dictionary

iwan

/ˈiːwɑːn/

iwan noun: a large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.

iwan: a large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side
Image: upyernoz from Haverford, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

iwan (plural iwans)

  1. A large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.

Forms of iwan

pluraliwans
alternative formaiwan
alternative formivan

Origin of iwan

Borrowed from Arabic إِيوَان (ʔīwān), from Classical Persian اَیْوَان (aywān, “porch”); see there for more. Doublet of apadana.

Questions about iwan

What does iwan mean?
Iwan means a large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.
What part of speech is iwan?
Iwan is a noun.
How do you pronounce iwan?
Iwan is pronounced /ˈiːwɑːn/.
What is the plural of iwan?
The plural of iwan is iwans.

Words near iwan in the dictionary

  1. Iwaidjan
  2. Iwaki
  3. iwakiite
  4. Iwamoto
  5. Iwamotos
  6. iwan
  7. iwana
  8. Iwanicki
  9. Iwanickis
  10. iwans
  11. Iwanski

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: iwan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “iwan.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/iwan. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.