Danube

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Danuvios (compare Welsh river name Donwy) or *Dānouyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“run, flow”). Cognate with Latin fōns (“spring”), Persian دنیدن (danīdan, “to hasten, run”), Ossetian дон (don, “water”), Sanskrit धन्वति (dhánvati, “it flows, runs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdænjuːb/

Proper noun

Danube

1. A river in Europe; flowing 2850 km from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania.
2. A locale in the United States, named for the river.
   1. A town in New York.
   2. A city in Minnesota.

Derived terms

• Danubian
• Danubic

Translations

river of Europe that flows to the Black Sea

• Afrikaans: Donou
• Albanian: Danubi (sq)
• Arabic: دَانُوب m (dānūb)
• Armenian: Դանուբ (hy) (Danub)
• Aromanian: Duna f, Dunav m
• Azerbaijani: Dunay (az)
• Bavarian: Doana
• Belarusian: Дуна́й m (Dunáj)
• Bulgarian: Дуна́в m (Dunáv)
• Catalan: Danubi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多瑙河 (zh) (Duōnǎo hé)

• Czech: Dunaj (cs) f
• Danish: Donau (da) c
• Dutch: Donau (nl)
• Estonian: Doonau
• Finnish: Tonava (fi)
• French: Danube (fr) m
• Georgian: დუნაი (dunai)
• German: Donau (de) f

  Alemannic German: Donnä

• Greek: Δούναβης (el) (Doúnavis)

  Ancient: Ἴστρος m (Ístros)

• Hebrew: דנובה f (danuba)
• Hindi: डेन्यूब (ḍenyūb)
• Hungarian: Duna (hu)
• Icelandic: Dóná f
• Indonesian: Donau
• Irish: An Danóib f
• Italian: Danubio (it)
• Japanese: ドナウ川 (Donau-gawá)
• Kazakh: Танай (Tanai)
• Korean: 다뉴브 강 (Danyub gang)
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• Latin: Danuvius m, Danubius, Ister m
• Latvian: Donava
• Lithuanian: Dunojus
• Macedonian: Дунав m (Dunav)
• Marathi: डॅन्यूब f (ḍǎnyūba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Donau

  Nynorsk: Donau

• Old English: Dōnua
• Old Norse: Dónua, Duná f
• Persian: دانوب (dânub)
• Polish: Dunaj (pl) m
• Portuguese: Danúbio (pt) m
• Romanian: Dunăre f
• Russian: Дуна́й (ru) m (Dunáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ду̀нав m

  Roman: Dùnav (sh) m

• Slovak: Dunaj m
• Slovene: Dónava (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Dunaj m

  Upper Sorbian: Dunaj m

• Spanish: Danubio (es) m
• Swedish: Donau (sv)
• Tagalog: Danubyo
• Thai: แม่น้ำดานูบ (th) (mâenáam daanôop)
• Turkish: Tuna nehri, Tuna (tr)
• Ukrainian: Дуна́й m (Dunáj)
• Urdu: ڈینیوب (ḍēn'yūb)
• Vietnamese: sông Donau
• Welsh: Donaw, Donwy

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French

Etymology

From Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Danuvios.

Proper noun

Danube m

1. (geography) Danube (a river in Europe)