divan沙发

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

A sofa or couch；the term has limited use in the United States．Divan hasan involved but logical history．Originating as a Persian word meaning“a brochure，”it came to mean，in order：“a collection of poems”；“a register”；“a military pay book”；“a room in which an account book was kept”；“an account office or custom house”；“a court”；“a great hall”；and，finally，by the late seventeenth century，“the chief piece of furniture in a great hall”!

此词意义如上所示，在美国使用不广。该词的历史虽然复杂但合乎逻辑。它源于波斯语，意为“小册子”，后来的词义相继是“诗集”、“登记册”、“军饷簿”、“账本存放室”、“财会室或海关”、“法庭”、“大厅”，最后到了17世纪下半叶，其意为“大厅中摆放的主要家具”。