durwan

English

Etymology

From Urdu دروان‎ (darvān) and Hindi दरवान (darvān), from Persian ‎ (darvān), from ‎ (darbān, “doorkeeper”), from ‎ (dar, “door”) + ‎ (-bān, “keeper, guardian”).

Noun

durwan (plural durwans)

(India) A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days‎:
  Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.
- 1940, Rabindranath Tagore, My Boyhood Days, in A Tagore Reader, edited by Amiya Chakravarty, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966, p. 94,
  Outside my retreat, our house was full of relatives and other people. […] Mukundalal the durwan is outside rolling on the ground with the one-eyed wrestler, trying out a new wrestling fall.

Anagrams

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单词	durwan
释义	durwan English Etymology From Urdu دروان‎ (darvān) and Hindi दरवान (darvān), from Persian ‎ (darvān), from ‎ (darbān, “doorkeeper”), from ‎ (dar, “door”) + ‎ (-bān, “keeper, guardian”). Noun durwan (plural durwans) (India) A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days‎: Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda. 1940, Rabindranath Tagore, My Boyhood Days, in A Tagore Reader, edited by Amiya Chakravarty, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966, p. 94, Outside my retreat, our house was full of relatives and other people. […] Mukundalal the durwan is outside rolling on the ground with the one-eyed wrestler, trying out a new wrestling fall. Anagrams undraw
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