duhan

Albanian

Alternative forms

• duon — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دخان (duhan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈhan/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

duhan m (plural duhane, definite duhani)

1. tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
2. tobacco (dried and finely chopped leaves of the plant)
3. (colloquial) cigarette

   Synonym: cigare

4. (dialectal) smoke

   Synonym: tym

Declension

Declension of duhan

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	duhan	duhani	duhane	duhanet
accusative		duhanin
dative	duhani	duhanit	duhaneve	duhaneve
ablative			duhanesh

Derived terms

• duhan i egër
• duhangrirës
• duhanishte
• duhanor
• duhanore
• duhanpirë
• duhanshitës
• duhantore
• duhanxhi
• pjatë duhani

 

References

• “duhán,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 383f.
• Lloshi, Xhevat (2010) “duhani”, in Fjalor i emrave të bimëve dhe të kafshëve shqip–latinisht dhe latinisht–shqip (in Albanian), Skopje, Pristina, Tirana: Logos-A, →ISBN, page 78b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “duhan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 140
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “duhan”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 86a
• Jungg, G. (1895) “duhan”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 25b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “duhán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 76
• Rossi, F. (1875) “duhân”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 316a

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian duhan, from Ottoman Turkish دخان, from Arabic دُخَان (duḵān).

Noun

duhan n (plural duhanuri)

1. (regional) tobacco

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	duhan	duhanul		duhanuri	duhanurile
genitive-dative	duhan	duhanului		duhanuri	duhanurilor
vocative	duhanule			duhanurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dùvān (Serbia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دخان (duhân), from Arabic دُخَان (duḵān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǔxaːn/
• Hyphenation: du‧han

Noun

dùhān m (Cyrillic spelling ду̀ха̄н)

1. (uncountable, Bosnia, Croatia) tobacco
2. (countable, colloquial, Bosnia, Croatia) a cigarette

Declension

Declension of duhan

	singular
nominative	dùhān
genitive	duhána
dative	duhanu
accusative	duhan
vocative	duhane
locative	duhanu
instrumental	duhanom