Noun

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duni

  1. plural of duno

Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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duni (Cyrillic spelling дуни)

  1. second-person singular imperative of dunuti

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic دُونِيّ (dūniyy) or دُون (dūn).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Adjective

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-duni (declinable) or duni (invariable)

  1. inferior, mediocre, worthless

Declension

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Inflected forms of -duni
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mduni
m-mi class(III/IV) mduni miduni
ji-ma class(V/VI) duni maduni
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) kiduni viduni
n class(IX/X) nduni nduni
u class(XI) mduni see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) paduni
ku class(XVII) kuduni
mu class(XVIII) muduni

References

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  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109 Nr. 966