dune

See also: Düne, dűne, d'une, and dune-

English

Dunes in Namibia

Etymology

Partially from a dialectal form of down; and partially from Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne (Dutch duin) or Middle Low German dune; all possibly from Gaulish dunum (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”). Compare English down.

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

Related terms

• duned

Translations

a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind

• Arabic: كثيب‏‎ (kathiib)
• Azeri: barxan
• Basque: duna (eu)
• Bulgarian: дю́на f (djúna)
• 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
• Faroese: sandheyggjur m, sandfonn f
• Finnish: dyyni (fi)
• French: dune (fr) f
• Galician: duna (gl) f
• Georgian: დიუნა (diuna)
• German: Düne (de) f
• Greek: αμμόλοφος (el) m (ammólofos), θίνα (el) f (thína)
• Hungarian: dűne (hu), bucka (hu)
• Ido: duno (io)

• Indonesian: gundukan pasir
• Irish: dumhach (ga) f
• Italian: duna (it) f
• Japanese: 砂丘 (さきゅう, sakyū)
• Kazakh: бархан (barxan)
• Korean: 둔 (ko) (屯 dun), 둔덕 (ko) (dundeok), 둔치 (dunchi), 모래톱 (moraetop), 사구 (ko) (砂丘, sagu)
• Latvian: kāpa (lv) f
• Lithuanian: kopa (lt) f
• Malay: gumuk
• Maori: taipū, tāhuahua (plural: refers to dunes)
• Norman: mielle f
• Norwegian: dyne (no)
• Persian: تلماسه‏‎ (talmâse), ماهور‏‎ (fa) (mâhur)
• Polish: wydma (pl), diuna (pl) f
• Portuguese: duna (pt) f
• Romanian: dună (ro) f
• Russian: дю́на (ru) f (djúna), барха́н (ru) m (barxán)
• Spanish: duna (es) f, médano (es) m
• Swedish: dyn (sv) c
• Turkish: kumul (tr)
• Ukrainian: дю́на (uk) f (djúna), барха́н (uk) m (barxán)

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/

Noun

dune f (plural dunes)

1. dune

Further reading

• “dune” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

dune f pl

1. plural of duna

Anagrams

• nude