dünən

See also: dunen and Dünen

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]

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• Hyphenation: dü‧nən

Adverb

dünən

1. 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.

Derived terms

• dünənləri

Related terms

• bugün (“today”)
• sabah (“tomorrow”)

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