Dukagjin

Borrowed from Albanian Dukagjin, see there for more.

Dukagjin

1. A region of Kosovo

   Synonym: Metohija

   Plain of Dukagjin

2. (historical) A sandjak in Rumelia, Ottoman Empire, roughly corresponding to the above

A noble family, originating as an univerbation of the title and name of its progenitor Duke Gjin Tanushi, attested as ducem Ginium Tanuschum Albanensem (1281).^[1] The surname is later attested as Latin Ducaginus, Ottoman Turkish دوقکین زاده (dukakin zade), Italian Ducagini. The branch of the family that settled in Capodistria became known as Italian Docaini, Ducaini. The entry for the surname itself is at Dukagjini.

The first attestation of the term used to refer to the plain regardless of the family ruling over it is in the first half of the 16th century with the establishment of the Sanjak of Dukagjin, see Italian Ducagini, Ottoman Turkish دوقه‌كین (duka-gin). The name was also previously attested as a kaza in the Sanjak of Scutari.

Sense 4 is first attested in 1635 by Frang Bardhi, where he calls it a new city, and translates the village as Latin Ducagina and Italian Ducagini, see quote.

• IPA^(key): /dukaˈɟin/
• Rhymes: -in
• Homophone: dukagjin

Dukagjin m (plural Dukagjinë, definite Dukagjini, definite plural Dukagjinët)

2. Dukagjin (a region of Kosovo)

   Synonym: Rrafshi i Dukagjinit

   Rrafshi i Dukagjinit ― the Dukagjin Plain

3. (obsolete) a region of the Balkans, including the above as well as parts of Northern Albania
4. (historical, countable) member of the Dukagjini family
6. a village in Kukës, Albania
   • 1635, Frang Bardhi, Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum, Rome: Propaganda Fide, page 196f.:

     Civitas nova, sivè Ducagina aedificata his nostris temporibus in arduis, asperisq. Albaniae montibus à Turca quodam Epirota nomine Buloli, Ducaginorum Praefecto, vel ut Turcico more dicamus, Zanzacho, Città nuova, ò Ducagini, Gȣtetia eree, oò Ducagin.

     The new city, that is Ducagina, was built in our times in the steep and rough mountains of Albania by a certain Albanian Turk named Buloli, the official of the Ducagini, or as we say in Turkish, sancak. gjytetja e re or Dukagjin.

8. a village in Dibër, Albania
9. a male given name

   Alternative form: Dugagjin

• Gelasius Toponomastik, year 17 pages 37f.: “Dukagjini”
• Dražić (2019), page 20b: “Дукађин” → “Dukagjin”
• Topalli (2017), page 417b: “dúkë” → “Dukagjin”
• Çabej SE, vol. 3, page 354ab: “dukë” → “Dukagjin”