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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tün (“night, yesterday”)[1]
Cognate with
Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰤 (tün, “night, dark night”),[2]
Turkish dün (“yesterday”),
Turkmen düýn (“yesterday”),
Crimean Tatar tünevin (“yesterday”) and dün (“yesterday”),
Karachay-Balkar тюнене (tünene, “yesterday”),
Uzbek tun (“night”),
Uyghur تۈن (tün, “dark”) and تۈنۈگۈن (tünügün, “yesterday”),
Tatar төн (tön, “night”),
Bashkir төн (tön, “night”),
Kazakh түн (tün, “night”) and
Kyrgyz түн (tün, “night”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
dünən
- yesterday
- Synonym: (formal) ötən gün
Dünən işdən qayıdanda, dostuma rast gəldim.- Yesterday, as I was returning from work, I met a friend.
1899,
Nariman Narimanov,
Türk-Azərbaycan diliniŋ müxtəsər sərf-nəhvi 21:
- بز دوند لالهزارده کزیردیك.
- Biz dünən laləzarda gəzirdik.
- Yesterday, we had a walk in the poppies garden.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐱅𐰇𐰤”, in TÜRIK BITIG: Ethno Cultural Dictionary, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan