dünən

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Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tün (“night, yesterday”)[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅‬𐰇‬𐰤 (tün, “night, dark night”),[2] Turkish dün (“yesterday”), Turkmen düýn (“yesterday”), Crimean Tatar tünevin (“yesterday”) and dün (“yesterday”), Karachay-Balkar тюнене (tünene, “yesterday”), Uzbek tun (“night”), Uyghur تۈن (tün, “dark”) and تۈنۈگۈن (tünügün, “yesterday”), Tatar төн (tön, “night”), Bashkir төн (tön, “night”), Kazakh түн (tün, “night”) and Kyrgyz түн (tün, “night”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdynæn]
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  • Hyphenation: dü‧nən

Adverb

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dünən

  1. yesterday
    Synonym: (formal) ötən gün
    Dünən işdən qayıdanda, dostuma rast gəldim.
    Yesterday, as I was returning from work, I met a friend.
    • 1899, Nariman Narimanov, Türk-Azərbaycan diliniŋ müxtəsər sərf-nəhvi [Concise grammar of the Azerbaijani Turkic language] 21:
      بز دوند لاله‌زارده کزیردیك.
      Biz dünən laləzarda gəzirdik.
      Yesterday, we had a walk in the poppies garden.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐱅𐰇𐰤”, in TÜRIK BITIG: Ethno Cultural Dictionary, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
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