دنیا

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

   Synonym: جیھان (cîhan)

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

Borrowed from Persian دنیا, from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).^[1]

دُنْیَا • (dünyā)

1. world, universe
2. realm, plane of existence

• Azerbaijani: dünya
• Gagauz: dünnää
• Ottoman Turkish: دنیا (dünya), տիւնեա (dünya) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: dünya
  • → Crimean Tatar: dünya
  • → Abkhaz: адунеи (adunej)
  • → Albanian: dynja
  • → Armenian: դունյա (dunya)
  • → Bulgarian: дюня́ (djunjá), дуня́ (dunjá)
  • → Laz: დუნჲა (dunya)
  • → Macedonian: дуња (dunja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ду̏ња

    Latin script: dȕnja

  • → Greek: ντουνιάς (ntouniás)

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “dunya”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 124

• տիւնեա (dünya) — Armeno-Turkish

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دُنْیَا (dünyā), ultimately from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا • (dünyâ)

1. world
2. kingdom

• Turkish: dünya
• → Crimean Tatar: dünya
• → Abkhaz: адунеи (adunej)
• → Albanian: dynja
• → Armenian: դունյա (dunya)
• → Bulgarian: дюня́ (djunjá), дуня́ (dunjá)
• → Laz: დუნჲა (dunya)
• → Macedonian: дуња (dunja)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ду̏ња

  Latin script: dȕnja

• → Greek: ντουνιάς (ntouniás)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dünya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā), from أَدْنَى (ʔadnā), from دَنِيّ (daniyy).

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دُنْیا • (donyâ)

1. world

   Synonym: جهان (jahân)

• دنیوی (donyavi)

• Dari: دنیا (dunyā)
• Iranian Persian: دنیا (donyâ)
• Tajik: дунё (dunyo)
• → Adyghe: дунае (dunaje)
• → Bashkir: донъя (donya)
• → Bengali: দুনিয়া (duniẏa)
• → Central Kurdish: دنیا (dinya)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: دۇنيا (dunya)
  • Uzbek: dunyo
• → Dhivehi: ދުނިޔެ (duniye)
• → Dongxiang: duya, dunya
• → Georgian: დუნია (dunia)
• → Kazakh: дүние (dünie)
• → Kumyk: дюнья (dünʹya)
• → Kyrgyz: дүйнө (düynö)
• → Lishana Deni: דונייה (dunye)
• → Marathi: दुनिया (duniyā)
• → Nogai: дуныя (dunıya)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: دُنْیَا (dünyā)
  • Azerbaijani: dünya
  • Gagauz: dünnää
  • Ottoman Turkish: دنیا (dünya) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Gujarati:
  • Gujarati: દુનિયા (duniyā)
  • Marwari: दुनियांण (duniyā̃ṇ)
• → Old Hindi:

  Hindi: दुनिया (duniyā)

  • • Fiji Hindi: dunia

  Urdu: دُنْیا (dunyā), دُنِیا (duniyā)

• → Nepali: दुनिया (duniyā)
• → Pashto: دنيا (dunyā)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦੁਨੀਆ (dunīā)

  Shahmukhi script: دنیا (dunīā)

• → Siberian Tatar: тонйа (tonya)
• → Tatar: дөнья (dön’ya)
• → Tausug: dunya
• → Turkmen: dünýä

Borrowed from Classical Persian دُنْیَا (dunyā). First attested as Old Punjabi دُنی (dunī).

دُنیا • (dunīā) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੁਨੀਆ)

1. world

Borrowed from Classical Persian دُنْیَا (dunyā), borrowed from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā), from أَدْنَى (ʔadnā), from دَنِيّ (daniyy).^[1][2] First attested in c. 1435 as Middle Hindi دنیا (dnya).^[3]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊn.jɑː/, /d̪ʊ.nɪ.jɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: دُن‧یا

دُنْیا • (dunyā) f (Hindi spelling दुनिया)

1. world
2. (by extension) universe
3. (by extension) Earth
4. existence, current life (as opposed to the hereafter)
5. society, all people, everyone (in this world)
6. (by extension) worldliness (as opposed to spiritual matters)
7. kingdom
8. pleasures of life, enjoyment

• “دنیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “دنيا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]