dune

See also: Düne, dűne, and dune-

English

Dunes in Namibia

Etymology

Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dūnǭ, *dūnaz, probably from Gaulish dunum (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːn/, /dʒuːn/

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  • Homophone: June (with /dʒ/)
• (US) IPA^(key): /duːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dune (plural dunes)

1. (geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.

Synonyms

• sand dune, sand-dune

Antonyms

• dyke, dike

Derived terms

• dunesand
• duney

Related terms

• duned

Translations

a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind

• Albanian: dunë (sq) f
• Arabic: كَثِيب‎ m (kaṯīb), غُرْد‎ m (ḡurd)
• Armenian: դյուն (dyun), ավազաթումբ (hy) (avazatʿumb)
• Azerbaijani: barxan, dyun
• Basque: duna (eu)
• Belarusian: дзю́на f (dzjúna), барха́н m (barxán)
• Bulgarian: дю́на f (djúna)
• Catalan: duna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 沙丘 (saa¹ jau¹)

  Mandarin: 沙丘 (zh) (shāqiū)

• Czech: duna (cs) f
• Danish: klit (da) c
• Dutch: duin (nl) f
• Esperanto: duno (eo)
• Estonian: luide, düün, tuiskliivahang
• Faroese: sandheyggjur m, sandfonn f
• Finnish: dyyni (fi)
• French: dune (fr) f
• Galician: duna (gl) f
• Georgian: დიუნა (diuna)
• German: Düne (de) f, Sanddüne (de) f
• Greek: αμμόλοφος (el) m (ammólofos), θίνα (el) f (thína)
• Hindi: बालुकूट (bālukūṭ), बालूकूट (bālūkūṭ)
• Hungarian: dűne (hu), bucka (hu)
• Icelandic: sandhóll m
• Ido: duno (io)
• Indonesian: gumuk (id)
• Irish: dumhach (ga) f
• Italian: duna (it) f
• Japanese: 砂丘 (ja) (さきゅう, sakyū)
• Kazakh: барқан (barqan), дөң (döñ), құм төбе (qum töbe)
• Khmer: ខ្សាច់នារ (khsac niə), ផ្នូក (phnouk), ផ្នូរខ្សាច់ (phnou khsac)

• Korean: 둔(屯) (ko) (dun), 둔덕 (ko) (dundeok), 둔치 (dunchi), 모래톱 (moraetop), 사구(砂丘) (ko) (sagu)
• Kyrgyz: бархан (barhan)
• Lao: ເນີນຊາຍ (nœ̄n sāi), ແຊນຫາດ (sǣn hāt)
• Latvian: kāpa (lv) f
• Lithuanian: kopa (lt) f
• Macedonian: дина f (dina)
• Malay: gumuk
• Maori: taipū, tāhuahua (plural: refers to dunes)
• Mongolian: манх (mn) (mankh), манхан (mn) (mankhan)
• Norman: mielle f
• Norwegian: dyne (no)
• Pashto: برهانه‎ f (borhāná)
• Persian: تلماسه‎ (talmâse), ماهور‎ (fa) (mâhur)
• Plautdietsch: Sauntdien f
• Polish: wydma (pl), diuna (pl) f
• Portuguese: duna (pt) f
• Romanian: dună (ro) f
• Russian: дю́на (ru) f (djúna), барха́н (ru) m (barxán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ди́не f pl

  Latin: díne (sh) f pl

• Slovak: duna f
• Slovene: sipina (sl) f
• Spanish: duna (es) f, médano (es) m
• Swedish: dyn (sv) c
• Tajik: хомаи рег (xomayi reg), моҳур (mohur)
• Thai: เนินทราย (nəən-saai)
• Turkish: kumul (tr)
• Turkmen: aňňat (tk)
• Ukrainian: дю́на (uk) f (djúna), барха́н (uk) m (barxán)
• Uyghur: بارخان‎ (barxan), قۇم بارخىنى‎ (qum barxini)
• Uzbek: barxan (uz), qumtepa (uz)
• Vietnamese: đụn cát, cồn cát

Anagrams

• nude, undé

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French

Etymology

From Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne (Dutch duin), possibly from Gaulish *dunon (“hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyn/

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Noun

dune f (plural dunes)

1. dune

Descendants

• → Catalan: duna
• → Portuguese: duna

Further reading

• “dune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Friulian

Noun

dune f (plural dunis)

1. dune

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ne/
• Rhymes: -une
• Hyphenation: dù‧ne

Noun

dune f pl

1. plural of duna

Anagrams

• nude

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Middle English

Noun

dune

1. Alternative form of dynne