дон

Borrowed from Italian don or Spanish don.

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дон • (don) m

1. don (Spanish or Italian title of respect)

• “дон”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “дон”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

From Proto-Permic *dɔn, cognate to Udmurt дун (dun).

дон • (don)

1. price

• IPA^(key): /ˈdon/,
• Hyphenation: дон

From Proto-Permic *dɔn, from Proto-Uralic *tɜnɜ. Cognates include Northern Khanty тын (tyn) and Northern Mansi тын (tyn).

Permic cognates include Udmurt дун (dun) and Komi-Permyak дон (don).

дон • (don)

1. price

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дон • (don)

1. red-hot, tempered

From Proto-Permic *dön. Cognates include Udmurt дун (dun).

дон • (don)

1. clear, pure

• Bubrikh, Dmitry V. (1949) Грамматика литературного коми языка [Grammar of the literary Komi language] (in Russian), Leningrad: Zhdanov Leningrad State University, page 37
• L. M. Beznosikova, E. A. Ajbabina, R. I. Kosnyreva (2000) Коми-русский словарь [Komi-Russian dictionary], →ISBN, pages 188-189

From earlier *дан (*dan) (attested in placenames, and compare Jassic dan) with a → o before a nasal, from Proto-Scythian *dānu, from Proto-Iranian *dānu (compare Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬥𐬎 (dānu, “river”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHnu (compare Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “drop, dew”)), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu.

дон • (don) (Iron plural дӕттӕ, Digor plural дӕнттӕ)

1. water
2. river
3. juice

• Bigulajev, B. B., Gagkajev, K. Je., Kulajev, N. X., Tuajeva, O. N. (1970) “дон”, in A. M. Kasajev, editor, Осетинско-русский словарь [Ossetian–Russian Dictionary], 3rd edition, Ordzhonikidze: Ir
• Takazov, F. M. (2003) “дон”, in Дигорско-русский словарь [Digor–Russian Dictionary], Vladikavkaz: Alania
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 366—367
• Fridrik Thordarson, Ossetic Grammatical Studies (2009)

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Borrowed from Spanish don and Italian don.

дон • (don) m anim (genitive до́на, nominative plural до́ны, genitive plural до́нов)

1. don (Spanish or Italian title)

Onomatopoeic

дон • (don)

1. dong, bong (sound of a large bell ringing)

Borrowed from Chechen дӏон (dˀon), abbreviated form of Chechen дуй хьуна (duj ḥʳuna).

дон • (don)

1. (Chechnya, colloquial) so, anyway, well, yeah (used as a filler word or for emphasis)

• Дон (Don, “the Don river”)