duka

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shop, store. Kenya
    — This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.

词形变化

dukas plural

词源

Etymology tree
Aramaic דּוּכָּנָאbor.
Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān)bor.
Swahili dukabor.
English duka
From Swahili duka, from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān), from Aramaic דּוּכָּנָא (dukkānā, “dais”), from Akkadian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu⁠/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠daggan⁠/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”).
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