dukhan

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān, “shop”).

Noun

dukhan (plural dukhans)

1. A small restaurant, tavern or shop in the Caucasus and Crimea.
   • 1969 February, Konstantin Paustovsky, “Fame came late to Niko Pirosmani”, in Soviet Life, page 46:

     In smoky dukhans reeking of wine fumes, he saw the humble despair of ambals hoarse with fatigue, forsaken children, street musicians with hands trembling from hunger and drink, paupers with blue, sinewy necks, cigarette venders.

Translations

a small restaurant, tavern or a shop in the Caucasus and Crimea

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: dyqan (sq) m
• Arabic: دُكَّان m (dukkān)
• Armenian: դուքան (hy) (dukʻan), դուքյան (dukʻyan)
• Assamese: দোকান (dükan)
• Azerbaijani: dükan (az)
• Belarusian: духа́н m (duxán)
• Bengali: দোকান (bn) (dōkan)
• Bulgarian: дюкя́н (bg) m (djukján)
• Crimean Tatar: tükân
• Georgian: დუქანი (ka) (dukani)
• Gujarati: દુકાન f (dukān)
• Hindi: दुकान (hi) f (dukān), दूकान (hi) f (dūkān)
• Kazakh: дүкен (kk) (düken)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دوکان (ckb) (dukan)

  Northern Kurdish: dikan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: дүкөн (ky) (dükön)
• Macedonian: дуќан m (duḱan)
• Malay: dukan
• Marathi: दुकान f (dukān)
• Nogai: туькен (tüken)
• Ossetian: дукани (dukani)
• Pashto: دوکان (ps) m (dukãn, dokā́n), دکان (ps) m (dokā́n)
• Persian: دکان (fa) (dokân)
• Punjabi: ਦੁਕਾਨ f (dukān)
• Romanian: dugheană (ro) f
• Russian: духа́н (ru) m (duxán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̀ћа̄н m

  Roman: dùćān m

• Tajik: дӯкон (dükon), дукон (tg) (dukon)
• Turkish: dükkân (tr)
• Turkmen: dükan
• Ukrainian: духа́н m (duxán)
• Urdu: دکان m (dukān), دوکان m (dūkān)
• Uyghur: دۇكان (dukan)
• Uzbek: doʻkon (uz)
• Zazaki: dukan

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