durwan

noun

1. A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building.

   Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.

Where it comes from

From Hindustani دروان (drvān) / दरवान (darvān), from Classical Persian دروان (darwān), from دربان (darbān, “doorkeeper”), from در (dar, “door”) + ـبان (-bān, “keeper, guardian”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry durwan (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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