дуња
Macedonian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъduňa, from Latin cydōnia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “quince-tree”).
Noun edit
дуња • (dunja) f
Declension edit
Declension of дуња
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دنیا (dünya) (Turkish dünya), from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).
Noun edit
дуња • (dunja) f (uncountable)
- (archaic, uncountable) world, earth
Declension edit
Declension of дуња
Derived terms edit
- дуњалук m (dunjaluk)
References edit
- “дуња” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
- Belčev, Tole (2016) “дуња”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language][1] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 52
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From earlier гду̏ња, from Proto-Slavic *kъduňa, from Latin cydōnia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “quince-tree”).
Noun edit
ду̏ња f (Latin spelling dȕnja)
- quince (tree and fruit)
Declension edit
Declension of дуња
Etymology 2 edit
From earlier ду̏хња, from Proto-Slavic *duxъna.
Noun edit
ду̏ња f (Latin spelling dȕnja)
- (regional) bed cover filled with feathers, duvet, eiderdown
- 1941, “Иструли ми дуња у фиоци”:
- Иструли ми дуња у фиоци,
мој је драги у Дражиној војсци.- My duvet will go to waste in the drawer, forthy my dear is in the Dražina army.