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English
Dunes in Namibia
Etymology
Partly from a dialectal form of down ; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune ), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin ), or from Middle Low German dûne ; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā , probably from Gaulish dunum ( “ hill ” ) , from Proto-Celtic *dūnom ( “ stronghold, rampart ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom ( “ enclosure ” ) , from *dʰewh₂- ( “ to finish, come full circle ” ) . Doublet of down (which see). ( Can this (+ ) etymology be sourced ?)
Pronunciation
Noun
dune (plural dunes )
( geomorphology ) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.
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Translations
a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
Albanian: dunë (sq) f
Arabic: كَثِيب m ( kaṯīb ) , غُرْد m ( ḡurd )
Armenian: դյուն ( dyun ) , ավազաթումբ (hy) ( avazatʻumb )
Azerbaijani: barxan , dyun
Basque: duna (eu)
Belarusian: дзю́на f ( dzjúna ) , барха́н m ( barxán )
Bulgarian: дю́на f ( djúna )
Catalan: duna (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 沙丘 ( saa1 jau1 )
Mandarin: 沙丘 (zh) ( shāqiū )
Czech: duna (cs) f
Danish: klit (da) c
Dutch: duin (nl) f
Esperanto: duno (eo)
Estonian: luide , düün , tuiskliivahang
Faroese: sandheyggjur m , sandfonn f
Finnish: dyyni (fi)
French: dune (fr) f
Galician: duna (gl) f
Georgian: დიუნა ( diuna )
German: Düne (de) f , Sanddüne (de) f
Greek: αμμόλοφος (el) m ( ammólofos ) , θίνα (el) f ( thína )
Hindi: टिब्बा (hi) ( ṭibbā ) , बालुकूट ( bālukūṭ )
Hungarian: dűne (hu) , bucka (hu)
Icelandic: sandhóll m
Ido: duno (io)
Indonesian: gumuk (id)
Irish: dumhach (ga) f
Italian: duna (it) f
Japanese: 砂丘 (ja) ( さきゅう, sakyū )
Kazakh: барқан ( barqan ) , дөң ( döñ ) , құм төбе ( qūm töbe )
Khmer: ខ្សាច់នារ ( khsac niə ) , ផ្នូក ( phnouk ) , ផ្នូរខ្សាច់ ( phnou khsac )
Korean: 둔(屯) (ko) ( dun ) , 둔덕 (ko) ( dundeok ) , 둔치 ( dunchi ) , 모래톱 ( moraetop ) , 사구(砂丘) (ko) ( sagu )
Kyrgyz: бархан ( barhan )
Lao: ເນີນຊາຍ ( nœ̄n sāi ) , ແຊນຫາດ ( sǣn hāt )
Latvian: kāpa (lv) f
Lithuanian: kopa (lt) f
Macedonian: дина f ( dina )
Malay: gumuk
Maori: taipū , tāhuahua ( plural: refers to dunes )
Mongolian: манх (mn) ( manx ) , манхан (mn) ( manxan )
Norman: mielle f
Norwegian: dyne (no)
Pashto: برهانه f ( borhāná )
Persian: تلماسه ( talmâse ) , ماهور (fa) ( mâhur )
Plautdietsch: Sauntdien f
Polish: wydma (pl) , diuna (pl) f
Portuguese: duna (pt) f
Romanian: dună (ro) f
Russian: дю́на (ru) f ( djúna ) , барха́н (ru) m ( barxán )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ди́не f pl
Latin: díne (sh) f pl
Slovak: duna f
Slovene: sipina (sl) f
Spanish: duna (es) f , médano (es) m
Swahili: tuta la mchanga
Swedish: dyn (sv) c
Tajik: хомаи рег ( xomayi reg ) , моҳур ( mohur )
Thai: เนินทราย ( nəən-saai )
Tibetan: བྱེ་མའི་རི ( bye ma'i ri , literally “ mountain of sand ” ) , བྱེ་རི ( bye ri ) ( abbr. of བྱེ་མའི་རི ) , བྱེ་ཕུང ( bye phung , literally “ sand pile ” )
Turkish: kumul (tr)
Turkmen: aňňat (tk)
Ukrainian: дю́на (uk) f ( djúna ) , барха́н (uk) m ( barxán )
Uyghur: بارخان ( barxan ) , قۇم بارخىنى ( qum barxini )
Uzbek: barxan (uz) , qumtepa (uz)
Vietnamese: đụn cát , cồn cát
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French dune , from Old French dune , from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin ), from Old Dutch dūn , dūno , from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā ( “ hill ” ) , of uncertain origin. More at Proto-West Germanic *dūnā .
Pronunciation
Noun
dune f (plural dunes )
dune
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Further reading
Friulian
Noun
dune f (plural dunis )
dune
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈdu.ne/
Rhymes: -une
Hyphenation: dù‧ne
Noun
dune f pl
plural of duna
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Middle English
Noun
dune
Alternative form of dynne
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
dune (Cyrillic spelling дуне )
third-person singular present of dunuti