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Divan of Ubayd Zakani
The Divan of Ubayd Zakani (دیوان عبید زاکانی) is the collected Persian poetry of Ubayd Zakani, a 14th-century satirist from Qazvin, chiefly qasidas, ghazals, and masnawis.
Divan of Vahshi Bafqi
The Divan of Vahshi Bafqi (دیوان وحشی بافقی) is the collected Persian poetry of Vahshi Bafqi, a 16th-century Safavid poet famed for his ghazals and vasokht style.
Divan of Vesal Shirazi
The Divan of Vesal Shirazi (دیوان وصال شیرازی) is the collected poetry of Mirza Mohammad Shafiʿ Vesal Shirazi, a Qajar-era poet and calligrapher of Shiraz who died in 1845/46.
Divan of Wallachia and Moldavia
The Divan of Wallachia and Moldavia (Divanul Țării Românești și al Moldovei) was the council of boyars and high dignitaries that advised each principality's hospodar, holding political, administrative, and judicial authority.
Divan of Zahir Faryabi
The Divan of Zahir Faryabi (دیوان ظهیر فاریابی) is the collected Persian poetry of Zahir Faryabi, a 12th-century court panegyrist who died in 1201 at Tabriz.
Divan poetry
Divan poetry (Divan şiiri) is the classical Ottoman poetic tradition, written in Ottoman Turkish on the aruz meter from the late 13th to the 19th century.
Divan-e Nezam
Divan-e Nezam (دیوان نظام) was the military law code of Qajar Iran, promulgated under Naser al-Din Shah, prescribing duties and punishments for desertion and rebellion.
Divan-i Hikmet
The Divan-i Hikmet (دیوان حکمت) is a collection of mystical poems, or hikmets, attributed to the Sufi poet Khoja Ahmad Yasawi (d. 1166), founder of the Yasawiyya order.
Divan-i Humayun
The Divan-i Humayun (دیوان همایون) was the imperial council of the Ottoman state, combining executive, legislative, and judicial authority until Mahmud II's reform ended it in 1838.
Divan-i Risalat
The Divan-i Risalat (دیوان رسالت, "divan of correspondence") was the state chancery of the Ghaznavid sultanate, one of five central divans, headed by Abu Nasr Mishkan and Abu'l-Fazl Bayhaqi.
Dîvân-ı Bâkî
Dîvân-ı Bâkî (دیوان باقی) is the collected Ottoman Turkish poetry of Bâkî (1526/27–1600), the "Sultan of Poets" of Süleyman the Magnificent's reign, gathering gazels, kasides, and other verse forms.
Dîvân-ı Fuzûlî
Dîvân-ı Fuzûlî (دیوان فضولی, also rendered Divan-i Fuzuli) is the collected lyric poetry of the sixteenth-century poet Fuzûlî, whose Turkish divan of about three hundred ghazals made his fame.
Dîvân-ı Gâlib
Dîvân-ı Gâlib (Dîvân-ı Şeyh Gâlib) is the collected Ottoman Turkish poetry of Şeyh Gâlib (1757–1799), regarded as the last great master of classical Divan poetry.
Divan-ı Hümayun
The Divan-ı Hümayun, the Imperial Council, was the supreme council of state of the Ottoman Empire, taking its full form under Mehmed II and ending under Mahmud II.
Dîvân-ı Nedîm
Dîvân-ı Nedîm is the collected divan of the Ottoman poet Nedîm (c. 1681-1730), whose plain, Istanbul-centered verse made him the poetic voice of the Tulip Era.
Dîvân-ı Nef'î
Dîvân-ı Nef'î (دیوان نفعی) is the collected Turkish divan of the Ottoman poet Nef'î, arranged by the poet himself and noted for its large share of panegyric qasidas.
Divani (poetry)
Divani, or divan poetry, is the classical court poetry of Islamic literatures, written chiefly in Persian and Ottoman Turkish in fixed forms inherited from Arabic models.
Divashtich
Divashtich (Dēwāštič) was the ruler of the Sogdian city of Panjikent in the early eighth century who claimed kingship of Sogdia and died in Arab hands in 722.
Dive bar
Dive bar: an unpretentious, cheap, long-established neighborhood bar, originally 1880s American slang for an illegal drinking den. Features jukeboxes, neon, regulars, minimal food; now imitated by pricier neo-dives.
Dive bomber
A dive bomber is a combat aircraft that drops its bomb in a steep dive for accuracy, used most by the US Navy in World War II.
Dive in Wonderland
Dive in Wonderland (不思議の国でアリスと) is a 2025 Japanese animated fantasy film by P.A.WORKS, the first Japanese theatrical anime adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Toshiya Shinohara, released August 29, 2025, 95 minutes, Shochiku.
Dive support vessel
A dive support vessel is a ship with a saturation diving system that places commercial divers at subsea work sites to build and repair offshore structures.
Diver Down
Diver Down is Van Halen's fifth studio album, released April 14, 1982 on Warner Bros. A 31-minute, cover-heavy record made in 12 days for about $46,000, it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard chart and spurred Eddie Van Halen's push for creative control.
Divergence
Divergence, or divergence operator, is a vector calculus operator measuring a vector field's net outflow per unit volume, positive at sources and negative at sinks.
Divergence between Anglicanism and Methodism
The divergence between Anglicanism and Methodism is the process by which John Wesley's evangelical revival inside the Church of England became a separate denomination, beginning with Wesley's 1784 ordinations for America.
Divergence excess
Divergence excess, also called divergence excess exotropia, ICD-11 9C83.62, is an intermittent exotropia pattern with a distance deviation at least 10 prism diopters greater than near; true versus simulated forms are separated by the monocular occlusion patch test.
Divergence insufficiency
Divergence insufficiency, also called age-related distance esotropia, is an acquired comitant esotropia greater at distance than near causing distance diplopia, mainly in adults over 50, treated with prism or strabismus surgery.
Divergence nystagmus
Divergence nystagmus (分离性眼球震颤), ICD-11 9C84.51, is a rare disconjugate nystagmus with the eyes beating in opposite directions, caused by vergence imbalance and associated with midline cerebellar and dorsal pontine lesions.
Divergence paralysis
Divergence paralysis (divergence palsy, ICD-11 9C83.61) is a rare acquired ocular motility disorder: complete loss of divergence with distance esotropia, normal convergence, and horizontal diplopia at distance, linked to raised intracranial pressure and brainstem lesions.
Divergence theorem
The divergence theorem, also called Gauss's theorem or Ostrogradsky's theorem, states that a vector field's outward flux through a closed surface equals the volume integral of its divergence.