dünən
Azerbaijani
Etymology
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
Adverb
dünən
- yesterday
- Dünən işdən qayıdanda, dostuma rast gəldim.
- Yesterday, as I was returning from work, I met a friend.
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References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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