iwan

iwan [ee-wahn] ExamplesWord Origin noun

a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.

Also ivan, liwan. Origin of iwan From the Persian word īwān Examples from the Web for iwan Historical Examples of iwan

Next year, too, there came a son and heir; whom they called Iwan, in honor of his Russian Great-grandfather.

Thomas Carlyle

Iwan, son of prince Anthony Ulric, of Russia, massacred in prison by his keepers.

Joel Munsell

As answer I will give the finely just acknowledgment of Iwan Bloch on this very question.

C. Gasquoine Hartley

I wish to refer to a point of special importance now, which I find is brought forward, in this connection, by Iwan Bloch.

C. Gasquoine Hartley

You ask me what I think of the death of poor Iwan, and of the person who ordered it.

The Earl of Chesterfield