Danube

English

Alternative forms

Danub (obsolete)

Etymology

Attested since at least 1598 (also note Middle English Danby (“Danube”) att. in 15th c. Mandeville's Travels).

Borrowed from Middle French Danube, from Old French Danube, from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos (compare Welsh river name Donwy), an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river, river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).

Cognate with Latin fōns (“spring”), Persian ‎ (danidan, “to hasten, run”), Ossetian дон (don, “water, river”), Sanskrit धन्वति (dhánvati, “it flows, runs”). More at Danube.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdænjuːb/
Audio (UK) (file)

Proper noun

Danube

A river in Europe; flowing 2850 km from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania.
A locale in the United States, named for the river.
1. A town in New York.
2. A city in Minnesota.

Derived terms

Danubian
Danubic

Descendants

Hindi: डेन्यूब (ḍenyūb)
Korean: 다뉴브 (danyubeu)
Marathi: डॅन्यूब (ḍĕnyūb)
Thai: ดานูบ (daa-núup)
Urdu: ڈینیوب‎ (ḍēn'yūb)
Vietnamese: Đa Nuýp

Translations

river of Europe that flows to the Black Sea

Afrikaans: Donou
Albanian: Danubi (sq), Dunau
Arabic: دَانُوب‎ m (dānūb)
Armenian: Դանուբ (hy) (Danub)
Aromanian: Duna f, Dunav m
Azerbaijani: Dunay (az)
Bavarian: Doana
Belarusian: Дуна́й m (Dunáj)
Bulgarian: Ду́нав m (Dúnav)
Catalan: Danubi m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多瑙河 (Duōnǎo hé)
Czech: Dunaj (cs) f
Danish: Donau (da) c
Dutch: Donau (nl)
Estonian: Doonau (et)
Finnish: Tonava (fi)
French: Danube (fr) m
Georgian: დუნაი (dunai)
German: Donau (de) f
Alemannic German: Donnä
Greek: Δούναβης (el) (Doúnavis)
Ancient: Ἴστρος m (Ístros)
Hebrew: דנובה‎ f (danuba)
Hindi: डेन्यूब (ḍenyūb)
Hungarian: Duna (hu)
Icelandic: Dóná f
Indonesian: Donau
Irish: An Danóib f
Italian: Danubio (it)
Japanese: ドナウ川 (Donau-gawa)
Kazakh: Танай (Tanai)
Korean: 다뉴브 강 (danyubeu gang)
Latin: Danuvius m, Danubius, Ister m
Latvian: Donava
Lithuanian: Dunojus
Macedonian: Дунав m (Dunav)
Marathi: डॅन्यूब f (ḍĕnyūb)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Donau
Nynorsk: Donau
Old English: Dōnua
Old Norse: Dónua, Duná f
Ottoman Turkish: طونه‎ (Tuna)
Persian: دانوب‎ (dânub)
Polish: Dunaj (pl) m
Portuguese: Danúbio (pt) m
Romanian: Dunăre f
Russian: Дуна́й (ru) m (Dunáj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ду̀нав m
Roman: Dùnav (sh) m
Slovak: Dunaj m
Slovene: Dónava (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Dunaj m
Upper Sorbian: Dunaj m
Spanish: Danubio (es) m
Swedish: Donau (sv)
Tagalog: Danubyo
Thai: แม่น้ำดานูบ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam daa-nûup)
Turkish: Tuna nehri, Tuna (tr)
Ukrainian: Дуна́й m (Dunáj)
Urdu: ڈینیوب‎ (ḍēn'yūb)
Vietnamese: sông Đa Nuýp, sông Danube, sông Donau
Welsh: Donaw, Donwy
Yakut: Дунаай (Dunaay)

Anagrams

Debaun

French

Etymology

From Middle French Danube, from Old French Danube (att. since mid-12th c.), borrowed from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -yb

Proper noun

Danube m

(geography) Danube (a river in Europe)

Walloon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /da.ˈnyp/

Proper noun

Danube

Danube (a river in Europe)