dynja

From Turkish dünya, from Ottoman Turkish دنیا (dünyâ), from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

dynja f (definite dynjaja)

1. (colloquial) world

• “dynja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “dynja”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• “dynja”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Old Norse dynja, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną (“to rumble, make a roaring sound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪnja/

  Rhymes: -ɪnja

dynja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dundi, supine dunið)

1. (intransitive) to resound, to boom, to reverberate

   Synonyms: duna, drynja

2. (intransitive, of wind) to howl, to roar

j=j

• (to resound): ymja, glymja, bylja

• dynje

From Old Norse dynja.

• IPA^(key): /²dʏnjɑ/

dynja (present tense dyn, past tense dunde, past participle dunt, present participle dynjande, imperative dyn)

1. to resound, to boom, to reverberate (make a loud, resonant sound, also figuratively)
   • 1894, Per Sivle, Svolder:

     So bar det laust med det Svolder-Slag, som dyn i vor Soga den Dag idag.

     Then erupted the battle of Svolder, which resounds in our history to this very day.

• “dynja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.