دنیا
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Central Kurdish
Etymology
Noun
دنیا (dinya)
Laki
Etymology
Noun
دنیا (dinya)
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- տիւնեա (dünya) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Noun
دنیا • (dünya)
Descendants
- Turkish: dünya
- → Crimean Tatar: dünya
- → Abkhaz: адунеи (adunej)
- → Albanian: dynja
- → Armenian: դունյա (dunya)
- → Bulgarian: дюня́ (djunjá), дуня́ (dunjá)
- → Laz: დუნჲა (dunya)
- → Macedonian: дуња (dunja)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Greek: ντουνιάς (ntouniás)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dünya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Persian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dunyā |
| Dari reading? | dunyā, duniyā |
| Iranian reading? | donyâ |
| Tajik reading? | dunyo |
Noun
| Dari | دنیا |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | дунё |
دُنْیا • (donyâ)
Derived terms
- دنیوی (donyavi)
Descendants
- Dari: دنیا (dunyā)
- Iranian Persian: دنیا (donyâ)
- Tajik: дунё (dunyo)
- → Adyghe: дунае (dunaje)
- → Azerbaijani: dünya
- → Bashkir: донъя (donʺya)
- → Bengali: দুনিয়া (duniẏa)
- → Central Kurdish: دنیا (dinya)
- → Chagatai:
- → Dhivehi: ދުނިޔެ (duniye)
- → Dongxiang: duya, dunya
- → Georgian: დუნია (dunia)
- → Kazakh: дүние (dünie)
- → Kumyk: дюнья (dünʹya)
- → Kyrgyz: дүйнө (düynö)
- → Lishana Deni: דונייה (dunye)
- → Marathi: दुनिया (duniyā)
- → Nogai: дуныя (dunıya)
- → Old Gujarati:
- → Old Hindi:
- → Nepali: दुनिया (duniyā)
- → Pashto: دنيا (dunyā)
- → Punjabi:
- → Siberian Tatar: тонйа (tonya)
- → Tatar: дөнья (dön’ya)
- → Tausug: dunya
- → Turkmen: dünýä
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā). First attested as Old Punjabi دُنی (dunī).
Noun
دُنیا • (dunīā) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੁਨੀਆ)
- world
- Guru Granth Sahib, Kabir, translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, ang 717:
- ایہہ جو دنیا سحر میلہ دستگیری ناہے
- eh jo dunīā sahar melā dastgīrī nāhe
- This world is just a magic-show; no one will be holding your hand.
- Guru Granth Sahib, Kabir, translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, ang 717:
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دنیا (dunyā), itself from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ʊn.jɑː/, /d̪ʊ.nɪ.jɑː/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: دُ‧ن‧یا
Noun
دُنْیا • (dunyā) f (Hindi spelling दुनिया)
- world
- (by extension) universe
- (by extension) Earth
- existence, current life (as opposed to the hereafter)
- society, all people, everyone (in this world)
- (by extension) worldliness (as opposed to spiritual matters)
- kingdom
- pleasures of life, enjoyment
Declension
| Declension of دنیا | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | دنیا (duniyā) | دنیائیں (duniyāẽ) |
| oblique | دنیا (duniyā) | دنیاؤں (duniyāõ) |
| vocative | دنیا (duniyā) | دنیاؤ (duniyāo) |
Further reading
- “دنیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دنیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دنيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.