dünən
Azerbaijani
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editAdverb
editdünən
- yesterday
- Synonym: (formal) ötən gün
- Dünən işdən qayıdanda, dostuma rast gəldim.
- Yesterday, as I was returning from work, I met a friend.
- 1899, Nariman Narimanov, Türk-Azərbaycan diliniŋ müxtəsər sərf-nəhvi [Concise grammar of the Azerbaijani Turkic language] 21:
- بز دوند لالهزارده کزیردیك.
- Biz dünən laləzarda gəzirdik.
- Yesterday, we had a walk in the poppies garden.
- بز دوند لالهزارده کزیردیك.
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editReferences
edit- ^ 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