Dung

• Dzung
• Yung

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.

Dung

1. A female given name from Vietnamese.

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dũng.

Dung

1. A male given name from Vietnamese.

To avoid the undesirable homograph dung, some Overseas Vietnamese individuals prefer to instead style their given name as Dzung or Yung, emphasizing the northern Vietnamese or southern Vietnamese pronunciation, respectively.

From Middle High German tunc, tunge, from Old High German tung, tunga, from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

The word also meant in High German—and it seems exclusively in Low German (compare Old Saxon dung)—a dwelling or storage room (originally under the earth and covered with dung), from Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”); also compare *dungijǭ (“dung-hill, dung-heap; bower”). The modern consonantism is of regional origin (see düngen). Cognate to English dung.

• IPA^(key): /dʊŋ/

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Dung m (strong, genitive Dunges or Dungs, no plural)

1. dung

• düngen
• Dungkäfer

• “Dung” in Duden online

Sino-Vietnamese word from 容.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Homophones: dung, giun, vun, vung

Dung

1. a female given name from Chinese