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Russian
Etymology
Compare Georgian დუქანი (dukani, “shop, store”)
Pronunciation
Noun
духа́н • (duxán) m inan (genitive духа́на, nominative plural духа́ны, genitive plural духа́нов)
- dukhan (a small restaurant in the Caucasus)
1840, Михаил Лермонтов, “Часть первая. I. Бэла”, in Герой нашего времени; English translation from Martin Parker, transl., A Hero of Our Time, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951:Подъехав к подошве Койшаурской горы, мы остановились возле духана. Тут толпилось шумно десятка два грузин и горцев; поблизости караван верблюдов остановился для ночлега.- Podʺjexav k podošve Kojšaurskoj gory, my ostanovilisʹ vozle duxana. Tut tolpilosʹ šumno desjatka dva gruzin i gorcev; poblizosti karavan verbljudov ostanovilsja dlja nočlega.
- On reaching the foot of Koishaur Mountain we stopped outside a dukhan where some twenty Georgians and mountaineers made up a noisy assemblage; nearby a camel caravan had halted for the night.
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دخان (duhân), from Arabic دُخَان (duḵān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dǔxaːn/
- Hyphenation: ду‧хан
Noun
ду̀ха̄н m (Latin spelling dùhān)
- (uncountable, Bosnia, Croatia) tobacco
- (countable, colloquial, Bosnia, Croatia) a cigarette
Declension