The name is derived from the Arabic dunyā (دُنْيَا) meaning “world, kingdom, universe.”
It is a concept in Islam used to describe worldly concerns, and it is also used to describe anything that is close or near.
Its Maghrebi form of Dounia is currently the 445th most popular female name in France.
Other forms include:
- Dynja (Albanian)
- Dünya (Azeri/Turkish)
- Donja Донъя (Bashkir)
- Dunja (Bosnian)
- Djunjà/ дюня̀/Dunjà дуня̀ (Bulgarian)
- Denya (Egyptian-Arabic)
- Donya دنیا (Egyptian-Arabic/Javanese/Persian)
- Duniya (Hausa)
- Ddunit (Kabyle)
- Dünïe дүние (Kazakh)
- Dinya (Kurdish)
- Düynö (Kyrgyz)
- Dunia (Malay/Indonesian/Swahili)
- Dinja (Maltese)
- Dunida (Somali)
- Dunyo дунё (Tajik/Uzbek)
- Dön’ya дөнья (Tatar)
- Dünyä (Turkmen)
- Duniyâ دنیا (Urdu)
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