Dunja
Dunja , also transcribed Dunia or Dunya (also Donia , in former French colonies Dounia or Dounya ), is a female given name that is common in Russia , Southeast Europe and the Arabic-speaking area and, depending on the region, can be traced back to a Greek , Slavic or Arabic origin .
Origin of name
The Russian name Дуня ( Dunja ) goes back to the Greek name Ευδοκία ( Eudokía ) and came to Russia with the veneration of St. Eudokia . There it became Евдокия ( Jevdokija ), dialect was Авдотья ( Avdotja ), of which Дуня ( Dunja ) is a pet form . The word εὐδοκία ( eudokía ) does not appear in classical Greek, in the Septuagint it mostly stands for Hebrew רָצוֹן( razon or ratson ), "good pleasure, grace". The original motive for naming is probably gratitude towards God, who in his grace gave the child. Regardless of this, Dunja means “ quince ” in Serbian and Croatian . The name popular in the former Yugoslavia - besides Serbia and Croatia also in Slovenia - is not traced back to the name of the fruit, but to the Russian name.
The name common in the Arabic-speaking worldدنيا, transcribed as Dunja, Dunia or Dunya, is from the Arabic word for "world" or "this side" (دُنْيا: Dunyā or Dunjā), which is where the Turkish name for planet earth ( Dünya ) comes from.
Name bearers
Donia
- Donia Ben-Jemia (* 1979), German actress
- Donia Rashwan Mahmoud (* 1998), Egyptian racing cyclist
Dunia
- Dunia Montenegro (* 1977), Brazilian porn actress
- Dunia Susi (* 1987), English soccer player
Dunja
- Dunja Arnaszus (* 1970), German radio play author, actress, dramaturge and lecturer
- Dunja Bialas , German journalist and film critic
- Dunja Dogmani (* 1977), German actress, dubbing and radio play speaker and director
- Dunja Hayali (* 1974), German journalist and television presenter
- Dunja Mijatović (* 1964), OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media
- Dunja Rajter (* 1946), Croatian-German singer
- Dunja Sowinetz (* 1964), Austrian actress
- Dunja Vejzovic (* 1943), Yugoslav-Croatian opera singer
- Dunja Zdouc (* 1994), Austrian biathlete
Dunya
- Dunya Maumoon (* 1970), Maldivian politician and minister
- Dunya Mikhail (* 1965), Iraqi-American poet
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German first name book . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, p. 546.
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden - The large first name dictionary. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2016. Entry 1 Dunja .
- ↑ Janez Keber: Leksikon imen . Mohorjeva druzba, Celje 2001. Entry Dunja ( Slovenian ).
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden - The large first name dictionary. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2016. Entry 2 Dunja .