dünən

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From 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
  • IPA(key): [ˈdynæn]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dü‧nən

Adverb

dünən

  1. yesterday
    • 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.
    Dünən işdən qayıdanda, dostuma rast gəldim.
    Yesterday, as I was returning from work, I met a friend.
    Synonym: (formal) ötən gün

Derived terms

References
  1. 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
  2. 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
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