"Nie lubię starych dywanów."
Translation:I do not like old carpets.
August 26, 2016
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RU: Nie liubliu starych diwanow. This means "I don't like old couches," in Russian. Interesting how dywan came to mean "carpet" in Polish but "couch" in Russian.
It's indeed interesting. The word comes actually from Persian, where it meant originally "archive" and "collected writings":
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dyw%CA%BEn%27#Middle_Persian
In modern Persian it also means "council".