duni
Ido
Noun
duni
- plural of duno
Makasar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduni/
- Hyphenation: du‧ni
Noun
duni (Lontara spelling ᨉᨘᨊᨗ)
- a coffin specifically used for transporting a corpse to a distant place
- Synonym: allung
- (historical, poetic) a container; something in which things are stored (attested in 17th-century poetry and later works)
Derived terms
affixations
Further reading
- Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
duni (Cyrillic spelling дуни)
- second-person singular imperative of dunuti
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دُونِيّ (dūniyy) or دُون (dūn).[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Adjective
-duni (declinable) or duni (invariable)
Declension
| Noun class | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| m-wa class(I/II) | mduni | waduni |
| m-mi class(III/IV) | mduni | miduni |
| ji-ma class(V/VI) | duni | maduni |
| ki-vi class(VII/VIII) | kiduni | viduni |
| n class(IX/X) | nduni | nduni |
| u class(XI) | mduni | see n(X) or ma(VI) class |
| pa class(XVI) | paduni | |
| ku class(XVII) | kuduni | |
| mu class(XVIII) | mduni |
Derived terms
- Verbal derivations:
- Causative: -dunisha
References
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109 Nr. 966