духан

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Russian

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Etymology

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Compare Georgian დუქანი (dukani, shop, store)

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Noun

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духа́н (duxánm inan (genitive духа́на, nominative plural духа́ны, genitive plural духа́нов)

  1. dukhan (a small restaurant in the Caucasus)
    • 1840, Михаил Лермонтов, “Часть первая. I. Бэла”, in Герой нашего времени; English translation from Martin Parker, transl., A Hero of Our Time, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951:
      Подъехав к подошве Койшаурской горы, мы остановились возле духана. Тут толпилось шумно десятка два грузин и горцев; поблизости караван верблюдов остановился для ночлега.
      Podʺjexav k podošve Kojšaurskoj gory, my ostanovilisʹ vozle duxana. Tut tolpilosʹ šumno desjatka dva gruzin i gorcev; poblizosti karavan verbljudov ostanovilsja dlja nočlega.
      On reaching the foot of Koishaur Mountain we stopped outside a dukhan where some twenty Georgians and mountaineers made up a noisy assemblage; nearby a camel caravan had halted for the night.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دخان (duhân), from Arabic دُخَان (duḵān).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dǔxaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ду‧хан

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ду̀ха̄н m (Latin spelling dùhān)

  1. (uncountable, Bosnia, Croatia) tobacco
  2. (countable, colloquial, Bosnia, Croatia) a cigarette

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