दीवाना

Hindi

FWOTD – 16 July 2017

Alternative forms

दिवाना (divānā)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ‎ (dēvāna), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyw'nk' /dēwānag/, “demonic; crazy, insane”). Compare Punjabi ਦਿਵਾਨਾ (divānā), ਦੀਵਾਨਾ (dīvānā) / دِیوانہ‎ (diyoanh), Gujarati દીવાનું (dīvānũ), Marathi दिवाणे (divāṇe).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪iː.ʋɑː.nɑː/, [d̪iː.ʋäː.n̪äː]

Adjective

दीवाना • (dīvānā) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ‎)

crazy, insane, mad
- 1997, Sonu Nigam, "Yeh Dil Deewana" in Pardes :
  यह दिल दीवाना
  दीवाना है यह दिल
  yah dil dīvānā
  dīvānā hai yah dil
  This heart is crazy
  mad is this heart
मेरा दिल तेरे लिए दीवाना हो गया है।
merā dil tere lie dīvānā ho gayā hai.
My heart is crazy about you.
Synonym: पागल (pāgal)

Noun

दीवाना • (dīvānā) m (Urdu spelling دِیوَانَہ‎)

lover
Synonyms: प्रेमी (premī), आशिक़ (āśiq), मजनूँ (majnū̃), साजन (sājan), प्रीतम (prītam)
madman, a crazy person
Synonym: पगला (paglā)

Declension

Declension of दीवाना (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दीवाना dīvānā	दीवाने dīvāne
oblique	दीवाने dīvāne	दीवानों dīvānõ
vocative	दीवाने dīvāne	दीवानो dīvāno

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दीवाना”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press