дюжина
See also: дужина
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from French douzaine (“twelve”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”), from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”) (via PIE componentwise cognate with двена́дцать (dvenádcatʹ)). Influenced by дю́жий (djúžij).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdʲuʐɨnə]
Audio: (file)
Noun
дю́жина • (djúžina) f inan (genitive дю́жины, nominative plural дю́жины, genitive plural дю́жин, relational adjective дю́жинный, diminutive дю́жинка)
Declension
Declension of дю́жина (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Derived terms
- дю́жинный (djúžinnyj)
- недю́жинный (nedjúžinnyj)
- полдю́жины (poldjúžiny), полудю́жина f (poludjúžina)
Compounds:
- чёртова дю́жина f (čórtova djúžina)
Descendants
- → Armenian: դյուժին (dyužin)
- → Azerbaijani: düjün
- → Georgian: დუჟინი (dužini)
- → Persian: دوجین (dujin, dojin)
- → Yakut: дьууһуна (juuhuna)
- → Uyghur: دوژنا (dozhna)
- → Uzbek: dujina
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “дюжина”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.