dune

See also:dune-,duŋe,Düne,anddűne

English

Dunes inNamibia

Etymology

Partly from a dialectal form ofdown;and partly fromFrenchdune(fromOld Frenchdune), or fromMiddle Dutchdūne(modernDutchduin), or fromMiddle Low Germandûne;all ultimately fromProto-West Germanic*dūn, *dūnā,probably fromProto-Celtic*dūnom(“stronghold, rampart”),fromProto-Indo-European*dʰuHnom(“enclosure”),from*dʰewh₂-(“to finish, come full circle”).Doubletofdown(which see).(Canthis⁽⁺⁾etymology besourced?)

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/djuːn/,/dʒuːn/

  • Audio(UK):

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  • Homophone:June(with /dʒ/)
• (US,Canada)IPA^(key):/dun/,(sometimes)/djun/
• (Wales,Ottawa Valley)IPA^(key):/dɪu̯n/
• Rhymes:-uːn

Noun

dune(pluraldunes)

1. (geomorphology)A ridge orhillofsandpiled up bycurrentsofwindorwater.
   • 1975,Texas A & M University. College of Geosciences,Contributions in Oceanography:

     Heavy line segments (lengthened for clarity) indicate locations of deep-seadunes.

   • 2021February 23, Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman,Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance,MIT Press,→ISBN,page257:

     In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] havingdunes[…]Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwaterdunesare a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality ofdunesis a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation ofduneson Earth.

Synonyms

• sand dune,sand-dune

Antonyms

• dyke,dike

Derived terms

• antidune
• dunal
• dune buggy
• dune coon
• dune cricket
• dunefield
• dunefoot
• duneland
• duneless
• dunelet
• dunelike
• dunesand
• dunescape
• dunetop
• Duneverse
• duney
• duny
• foredune
• interdune
• Pajaro Dunes
• palaeodune
• paleodune
• river dune

Related terms

• duned

Translations

a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind

• Albanian:dunë(sq)f
• Arabic:كَثِيبm(kaṯīb),غُرْدm(ḡurd)
• Armenian:դյուն(dyun),ավազաթումբ(hy)(avazatʻumb)
• Azerbaijani:barxan,dyun
• Basque:duna(eu)
• Belarusian:дзю́наf(dzjúna),барха́нm(barxán)
• Bulgarian:дю́наf(djúna)
• Catalan:duna(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Cồn cát(saa¹jau¹)

  Mandarin:Cồn cát(zh)(shāqiū)

• Czech:duna(cs)f
• Danish:klit(da)c
• Dutch:duin(nl)f
• Esperanto:duno(eo)
• Estonian:luide,düün,tuiskliivahang
• Faroese:sandheyggjurm,sandfonnf
• Finnish:dyyni(fi)
• French:dune(fr)f
• Galician:duna(gl)f
• Georgian:დიუნა(diuna)
• German:Düne(de)f,Sanddüne(de)f
• Greek:αμμόλοφος(el)m(ammólofos),θίνα(el)f(thína)
• Gujarati:ઢૂવોm(ḍhūvo)
• Hindi:टिब्बा(hi)(ṭibbā),बालुकूट(bālukūṭ)
• Hungarian:dűne(hu),bucka(hu)
• Icelandic:sandhóllm
• Ido:duno(io)
• Indonesian:gumuk(id)
• Irish:dumhach(ga)f
• Italian:duna(it)f
• Japanese:Sa khâu(ja)(さきゅう, sakyū)
• Kazakh:барқан(barqan),дөң(döñ),құм төбе(qūm töbe)
• Khmer:ខ្សាច់នារ(khsac niə),ផ្នូក(phnouk),ផ្នូរខ្សាច់(phnou khsac)
• Korean:둔( truân )(ko)(dun),둔덕(ko)(dundeok),둔치(dunchi),모래톱(moraetop),사구( sa khâu )(ko)(sagu)
• Kyrgyz:бархан(barhan)
• Lao:ເນີນຊາຍ(nœ̄n sāi),ແຊນຫາດ(sǣn hāt)
• Latvian:kāpa(lv)f
• Lithuanian:kopa(lt)f
• Macedonian:динаf(dina)
• Malay:gumuk
• Maori:taipū,tāhuahua(plural: refers to dunes)
• Mongolian:манх(mn)(manx),манхан(mn)(manxan)
• Norman:miellef
• Norwegian:dyne(no)
• Pannonian Rusyn:динаf(dina)
• Pashto:برهانهf(borhāná)
• Persian:تلماسه(talmâse),ماهور(phát)(mâhur)
• Plautdietsch:Sauntdienf
• Polish:wydma(pl),diuna(pl)f
• Portuguese:duna(pt)f
• Romanian:dună(ro)f
• Russian:дю́на(ru)f(djúna),барха́н(ru)m(barxán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:ди́неfpl

  Latin:díne(sh)fpl

• Slovak:dunaf
• Slovene:sipina(sl)f
• Spanish:duna(es)f,médano(es)m
• Swahili:tuta la mchanga
• Swedish:dyn(sv)c
• Tajik:хомаи рег(xoma-yi reg),моҳур(mohur)
• Thai:เนินทราย(nəən-saai)
• Tibetan:བྱེ་མའི་རི(bye ma'i ri,literally“mountain of sand”),བྱེ་རི(bye ri)(abbr. of བྱེ་མའི་རི),བྱེ་ཕུང(bye phung,literally“sand pile”)
• Turkish:kumul(tr)
• Turkmen:aňňat(tk)
• Ukrainian:дю́на(uk)f(djúna),барха́н(uk)m(barxán)
• Uyghur:بارخان(barxan),قۇم بارخىنى(qum barxini)
• Uzbek:barxan(uz),qumtepa(uz)
• Vietnamese:đụn cát,cồn cát

Anagrams

• nude,undé

French

Etymology

InheritedfromMiddle Frenchdune,fromOld Frenchdune,fromMiddle Dutchdūne(modernDutchduin), fromOld Dutchdūn,dūno,fromProto-West Germanic*dūnā(“hill”),of uncertain origin. More at Proto-West Germanic*dūnā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/dyn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-yn

Noun

dunef(pluraldunes)

1. dune

Descendants

• →Catalan:duna
• →Portuguese:duna

Further reading

• “dune”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Friulian

Noun

dunef(pluraldunis)

1. dune

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈdu.ne/
• Rhymes:-une
• Hyphenation:dù‧ne

Noun

dunefpl

1. pluralofduna

Anagrams

• nude

Middle English

Noun

dune

1. Alternative form ofdynne

Old English

Noun

dūne

1. inflection ofdūn:
   1. accusative/genitive/dativesingular
   2. nominative/accusativeplural

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dune(Cyrillic spellingдуне)

1. third-personsingularpresentofdunuti