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iwan
[ ee-wahn ]
noun
- a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of iwan1
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Example Sentences
As answer I will give the finely just acknowledgment of Iwan Bloch on this very question.
I wish to refer to a point of special importance now, which I find is brought forward, in this connection, by Iwan Bloch.
Next year, too, there came a son and heir; whom they called Iwan, in honor of his Russian Great-grandfather.
You ask me what I think of the death of poor Iwan, and of the person who ordered it.
Iwan, son of prince Anthony Ulric, of Russia, massacred in prison by his keepers.
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