духан

Russian

Etymology

Compare Georgian დუქანი (dukani, “shop, store”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dʊˈxan]

Noun

духа́н • (duxán) m inan (genitive духа́на, nominative plural духа́ны, genitive plural духа́нов)

  1. dukhan (a small restaurant in the Caucasus)
    • 1840, Михаил Лермонтов, “Часть первая. I. Бэла”, in Герой нашего времени; English translation from Martin Parker, transl., A Hero of Our Time, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951:
      Подъехав к подошве Койшаурской горы, мы остановились возле духана. Тут толпилось шумно десятка два грузин и горцев; поблизости караван верблюдов остановился для ночлега.
      Podʺjexav k podošve Kojšaurskoj gory, my ostanovilisʹ vozle duxana. Tut tolpilosʹ šumno desjatka dva gruzin i gorcev; poblizosti karavan verbljudov ostanovilsja dlja nočlega.
      On reaching the foot of Koishaur Mountain we stopped outside a dukhan where some twenty Georgians and mountaineers made up a noisy assemblage; nearby a camel caravan had halted for the night.

Declension
Declension of духа́н (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative духа́н
duxán		 духа́ны
duxány
genitive духа́на
duxána		 духа́нов
duxánov
dative духа́ну
duxánu		 духа́нам
duxánam
accusative духа́н
duxán		 духа́ны
duxány
instrumental духа́ном
duxánom		 духа́нами
duxánami
prepositional духа́не
duxáne		 духа́нах
duxánax

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dǔxaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ду‧хан

Noun

ду̀ха̄н m (Latin spelling dùhān)

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

Declension
Declension of духан
singular
nominative ду̀ха̄н
genitive духа́на
dative духану
accusative духан
vocative духане
locative духану
instrumental духаном
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