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Central Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic دُنْيَا ( dunyā ) .
Noun
دنیا (dinya )
world
Synonym: جیھان ( cîhan )
Laki
Etymology
From Arabic دُنْيَا ( dunyā ) .
Noun
دنیا (dinya )
world
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic دُنْيَا ( dunyā ) .
Noun
دنیا • (dünyâ )
world
kingdom
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دُنْيَا ( dunyā ) .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
dunyā
Dari reading?
dunyā, duniyā
Iranian reading?
donyâ
Tajik reading?
dunyo
Noun
Dari
دنیا
Iranian Persian
Tajik
дунё
دُنْیا • (donyâ )
world
Synonym: جهان ( jahân )
Derived terms
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:
Hindi: दुनिया ( duniyā )
Urdu: دُنْیا ( dunyā ) , دُنِیا ( duniyā )
→ Nepali: दुनिया ( duniyā )
→ Pashto: دنيا ( dunyā )
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਦੁਨੀਆ ( dunīā )
Shahmukhi script: دنیا ( dunīā )
→ 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
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دُنْیا , itself from Arabic دُنْيَا ( dunyā ) .[ 1] [ 2] First attested in c. 1435 as Middle Hindi دنیا ( dnya ) .[ 3]
Pronunciation
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
دُنْیا ( dunyā )
دُنْیائیں ( dunyāẽ )
oblique
دُنْیا ( dunyā )
دُنْیاؤں ( dunyāõ )
vocative
دُنْیا ( dunyā )
دُنْیاؤ ( dunyāo )
References
^ Platts, John T. (1884 ) “دنيا ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English , London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 529
^ S. W. Fallon (1879 ) “دنيا ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary , Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
^ “دنیا ”, in اُردُو لُغَت ( urdū luġat ) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017 .
Further reading
“دنیا ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت ( rexta luġat ) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024 .
Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024 ) “دنيا ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries ]