dynja

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Albanian

Etymology

From Turkish dünya, from Ottoman Turkish دنیا (dünyâ), from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Noun

dynja f (definite dynjaja)

  1. (colloquial) world

Further reading

  • “dynja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “dynja”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
  • dynja”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse dynja, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną (to rumble, make a roaring sound).

Pronunciation

Verb

dynja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dundi, supine dunið)

  1. (intransitive) to resound, to boom, to reverberate
    Synonyms: duna, drynja
  2. (intransitive, of wind) to howl, to roar

Conjugation

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Synonyms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse dynja.

Pronunciation

Verb

dynja (present tense dyn, past tense dunde, past participle dunt, present participle dynjande, imperative dyn)

  1. to resound, to boom, to reverberate (make a loud, resonant sound, also figuratively)
    • 1894, Per Sivle, Svolder:
      So bar det laust med det Svolder-Slag, som dyn i vor Soga den Dag idag.
      Then erupted the battle of Svolder, which resounds in our history to this very day.

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