Noun: djunke
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Problemet er når de der jævla djunkene dukker opp og seiler på tvers i farvannet og tenner parafinlykta si i siste liten. (The problem is there when the damned junks emerge and sail across the fairway, lighting their paraffin lantern at the last moment.) [2014, Ove Evald Kristiansen, Kolofon Forlag, Dekken, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like djunke
overtakelse,
modelljernbane,
seanse,
overtagelse,
snegle,
satire,
sminkebørste,
salvie,
sjanse,
smerte,
slange,
sonate,
single,
skygge,
skotte,
skjede,
skalle,
bekreftelse,
fenaknoke,
sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From English junk, from Portuguese junco, from Javanese djong and Old Javanese jong, probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). See: English Nouns '
junk', Portuguese Nouns '
junco'.
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