دنیا

See also: دنيا

Central Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Noun

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

   Synonym: جیھان (cîhan)

Laki

Etymology

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Noun

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• տիւնեա (dünya) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Noun

دنیا • (dünya)

1. world
2. kingdom

Descendants

• Turkish: dünya
• → Crimean Tatar: dünya
• → Abkhaz: адунеи (adunej)
• → Albanian: dynja
• → Armenian: դունյա (dunya)
• → Bulgarian: дюня́ (djunjá), дуня́ (dunjá)
• → Laz: დუნჲა (dunya)
• → Macedonian: дуња (dunja)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ду̏ња

  Latin script: dȕnja

• → Greek: ντουνιάς (ntouniás)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dünya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dun.jɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊɲ.jɑː], [d̪ʊ.ni.jɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊɲ.jɑː], [d̪ʊ.ni.jɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊɲ.jɑː], [d̪ʊ.ni.jɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪uɲ.jɔː], [d̪u.ni.jɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪oɲ.jɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪uɲ.jɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	dunyā
Dari reading?	dunyā, duniyā
Iranian reading?	donyâ
Tajik reading?	dunyo

Noun

Dari	دنیا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дунё

دُنْیا • (donyâ)

1. world

   Synonym: جهان (jahân)

Derived terms

• دنیوی (donyavi)

Descendants

• Dari: دنیا (dunyā)
• Iranian Persian: دنیا (donyâ)
• Tajik: дунё (dunyo)
• → Adyghe: дунае (dunaje)
• → Azerbaijani: dünya
• → Bashkir: донъя (donʺya)
• → Bengali: দুনিয়া (duniẏa)
• → Central Kurdish: دنیا (dinya)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: دۇنيا (dunya)
  • Uzbek: dunyo
• → Dhivehi: ދުނިޔެ (duniye)
• → Dongxiang: duya, dunya
• → Georgian: დუნია (dunia)
• → Kazakh: дүние (dünie)
• → Kumyk: дюнья (dünʹya)
• → Kyrgyz: дүйнө (düynö)
• → Lishana Deni: דונייה (dunye)
• → Marathi: दुनिया (duniyā)
• → Nogai: дуныя (dunıya)
• → Old Gujarati:
  • Gujarati: દુનિયા (duniyā)
  • Rajasthani: दुनियांण (duniyā̃ṇ)
• → Old Hindi:
  • Hindi: दुनिया (duniyā)
    • Fiji Hindi: dunia
  • Urdu: دُنْیا (dunyā), دُنِیا (duniyā)
• → Nepali: दुनिया (duniyā)
• → Pashto: دنيا (dunyā)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦੁਨੀਆ (dunīā)

  Shahmukhi script: دنیا (dunīā)

• → Siberian Tatar: тонйа (tonya)
• → Tatar: дөнья (dön’ya)
• → Tausug: dunya
• → Turkmen: dünýä

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā). First attested as Old Punjabi دُنی (dunī).

Noun

دُنیا • (dunīā) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੁਨੀਆ)

1. world
   • Guru Granth Sahib, Kabir, translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, ang 717:

     ایہہ جو دنیا سحر میلہ دستگیری ناہے

     eh jo dunīā sahar melā dastgīrī nāhe

     This world is just a magic-show; no one will be holding your hand.

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دنیا (dunyā), itself from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊn.jɑː/, /d̪ʊ.nɪ.jɑː/

• Audio (PK)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: دُ‧ن‧یا

Noun

دُنْیا • (dunyā) f (Hindi spelling दुनिया)

1. world
2. (by extension) universe
3. (by extension) Earth
4. existence, current life (as opposed to the hereafter)
5. society, all people, everyone (in this world)
6. (by extension) worldliness (as opposed to spiritual matters)
7. kingdom
8. pleasures of life, enjoyment

Declension

Declension of دنیا
	singular	plural
direct	دنیا (duniyā)	دنیائیں (duniyāẽ)
oblique	دنیا (duniyā)	دنیاؤں (duniyāõ)
vocative	دنیا (duniyā)	دنیاؤ (duniyāo)

Further reading

• “دنیا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دنیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دنيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.