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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic دُنْيَوِيّ (dunyawiyy). By surface analysis, dünya (“world”) + -vi.
The shift from the sense mundane to secular is probably resulting from a semantic loan from Russian светский (svetskij).
Cognate with Uzbek dunyoviy.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: dün‧yə‧vi
Adjective
dünyəvi
- (rare) mundane, wordly, earthly
- secular
- dünyəvi dövlət ― secular state
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