دنیا

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

   Synonym: جیھان (cîhan)

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا (dinya)

1. world

• տիւնեա (dünya) — Armeno-Turkish

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

دنیا • (dünya)

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

From Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

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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)
• → Azerbaijani: dünya
• → Bashkir: донъя (donʺya)
• → 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 Gujarati:
  • Gujarati: દુનિયા (duniyā)
  • Rajasthani: 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 Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā). First attested as Old Punjabi دُنی (dunī).

دُنیا • (dunīā) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੁਨੀਆ)

1. world
   • Guru Granth Sahib, Kabir, translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, ang 717:

     ایہہ جو دنیا سحر میلہ دستگیری ناہے

     eh jo dunīā sahar melā dastgīrī nāhe

     This world is just a magic-show; no one will be holding your hand.

Borrowed from Classical Persian دنیا (dunyā), itself from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: دُ‧ن‧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 اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دنیا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دنيا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.