duna

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

duna

1. a kind of large eel

Borrowed from French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdu.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈdu.na]

duna f (plural dunes)

1. dune

• dunar

• “duna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “duna”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “duna” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “duna” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈduna]

duna f

1. dune

   Synonym: písečná duna f

• danu
• Danu
• nuda

From Proto-Central Pacific *tuna, from Proto-Oceanic *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

duna

1. eel

• IPA^(key): /ˈduna/ [ˈd̪u.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: du‧na

duna f (plural dunas)

1. dune

• “duna”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

From Kalinago tuna, a loanword from Kari'na tuna (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈduna/

duna

1. water

• dunagei

• Geneviève Escure, Armin Schwegler, Creoles, Contact, and Language Change (2004), →ISBN, page 46

• IPA^(key): /dúː.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dúː.nàː]

dūnā̀ m (possessed form dūnàn)

1. very black person or thing

From Old Norse duna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʏːna/
• Rhymes: -ʏːna

duna f (genitive singular dunu, nominative plural dunur)

1. boom

   Synonyms: gnýr, druna, dynur, glymur

duna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dunaði, supine dunað)

1. (intransitive) to boom

   Synonyms: dynja, drynja, glymja

Borrowed from Middle Dutch dūne, likely from Gaulish dunum (“fort”), from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), derived from the root *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.na/
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: dù‧na

duna f (plural dune)

1. dune

• duna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• nuda

• dëna

Borrowed from German Düne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduna/
• Syllabification: du‧na

duna f

1. dune

   Synonym: wëdma.

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “wydma”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wydma”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “duna”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• dunen m, dunet n

duna m or f or n

1. definite feminine singular of dun

• dunet

duna f or n

1. definite feminine singular of dun

duna f (plural dunas)

1. dune

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 252.

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duna

1. (impersonal) to boom, roar

   Skrýmir hrýtr ok sefr svá fast at dunar í skóginum.

   Skrymir snores and sleeps so that it booms in the forest.

duna f (genitive dunu)

1. a rushing, thundering noise

• “duna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Spanish donar.

duna

1. to give

Borrowed from French dune,[1][2] from Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne, from Gaulish dunon.

• Hyphenation: du‧na

duna f (plural dunas)

1. (geomorphology) dune (ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

From Dutch duin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduna/ [ˈd̪u.na]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: du‧na

duna f (plural dunas)

1. dune

• “duna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

-duna^?

1. to hijack, to kidnap