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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъduňa, from Latin cydōnia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “quince-tree”).
Noun
дуња • (dunja) f
- quince
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دنیا (dünya) (Turkish dünya), from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).
Noun
дуња • (dunja) f (uncountable)
- (archaic, uncountable) world, earth
Declension
Declension of дуња
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singular
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| indefinite
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дуња
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| definite unspecified
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дуњата
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| definite proximal
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дуњава
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| definite distal
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дуњана
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| vocative
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дуњо
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Derived terms
References
- “дуња” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) − 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] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 52
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From earlier гду̏ња, from Proto-Slavic *kъduňa, from Latin cydōnia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “quince-tree”).
Noun
ду̏ња f (Latin spelling dȕnja)
- quince (tree and fruit)
Declension
Etymology 2
From earlier ду̏хња, from Proto-Slavic *duxъna.
Noun
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.
Declension