dune

See also d'une, and Düne

English

Dunes in Namibia

Etymology

Cognate with Old and Modern French dune, Middle Dutch dūne, Dutch duin, compare English down.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /djuːn/, /dʒuːn/
• (US) IPA: /duːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dune (plural dunes)

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

Synonyms

• sand dune, sand-dune

Antonyms

• dyke, dike

Derived terms

• dunesand

Related terms

• duned

Translations

a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind

• Azeri: barxan (az)
• Bulgarian: дюна (bg) (djúna) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙丘 (cmn) (shāqiū)

• Czech: duna (cs) f
• Dutch: duin (nl) f
• Esperanto: duno (eo)
• Estonian: luide (et)
• Finnish: dyyni (fi)
• French: dune (fr) f
• German: Düne (de) f
• Greek: αμμόλοφος (el) (ammólofos) m, θίνα (el) (thína) f
• Hungarian: dűne (hu)
• Ido: duno (io)
• Indonesian: gundukan pasir

• Italian: duna (it) f
• Japanese: 砂丘 (ja) (さきゅう, sakyū)
• Jèrriais: mielle f
• Kazakh: бархан (kk) (barxan)
• Korean: 둔 (屯 dun), 둔덕 (dundeok), 둔치 (dunchi), 모래톱 (moraetop), 사구 (砂丘, sagu)
• Latvian: kāpa (lv) f
• Lithuanian: kopa (lt) f
• Maori: taipū (mi), tāhuahua (mi) (plural: refers to dunes)
• Polish: wydma (pl), diuna (pl) f
• Portuguese: duna (pt) f
• Romanian: dună (ro) f
• Russian: дюна (ru) (djúna) f, бархан (ru) (barxán) m
• Spanish: duna (es) f, médano (es) m
• Swedish: dyn (sv) c
• Ukrainian: дюна (uk) (djúna) f, бархан (uk) (barxán) m

Anagrams

• nude

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French

Etymology

Old French, from Middle Dutch dūne (Dutch duin), from Celtic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dyn/, X-SAMPA: /dyn/

Noun

dune f (plural dunes)

1. dune

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Italian

Noun

dune f pl

1. Plural form of duna

Anagrams

• nude