Don

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɑn/
• Homophones: don; dawn (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Don

1. A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.

• Diaper Don
• Teflon Don
• Zion Don

Borrowed from Russian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

the Don

1. A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia. It flows 1870 kilometers (1160 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 339:

     Thence they marched againſt Orna, a Port Towne on the Riuer Don, where were many Gazarians, Alanians, Ruſſians, and Saracens, which he drowned with the Riuer running through the Citie, turning it out of the chanell.

• Cossack

• Strabo, Geographica, 11.2.2.

Probably from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names such as Danube, and Dniester. Connected with the Welsh river goddess Dôn, whose name is from the same origin, though it could have been influenced by Welsh dawn (“gift”), Irish dán (“gift, offering”), Latin dōnum.

the Don

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
3. A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
4. A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.

• Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality, p. 97
• Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names for Pagans, Wiccans, Witches, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts who are Curious about Names from Every Place and Every Time, p. 178

• As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Dunn.
• Also as an English and Scottish surname, from Dun, a place in Scotland.
• As an Italian surname, variant of Dono.
• As a Galician surname, from a nickname derived from don (“kindness, favor”).
• As a Hungarian surname, variant of Donát, Donath.
• As a French surname of Germanic origin, from the old name Dodo, see Dodier.
• Also as a French surname, from the place Don in Nord.
• As a Jewish surname, from a variant of Dan.
• As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 曾, see Zeng.
• As a Vietnamese surname Đôn, possibly from Chinese 敦, see Dun.

Don

1. A surname

• Don Bosco

• NOD, ODN, nod

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /dɔn/

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• Hyphenation: Don
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Don m

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

From Russian Дон (Don).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdon/, [ˈdo̞n]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation^(key): Don

Don

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

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Don m (proper noun, strong, genitive Dons or Don)

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

Don m

1. don (honorific title, especially in Spain and Italy)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdon]
• Rhymes: -on

Don

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Don	—
accusative	Dont	—
dative	Donnak	—
instrumental	Donnal	—
causal-final	Donért	—
translative	Donná	—
terminative	Donig	—
essive-formal	Donként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Donban	—
superessive	Donon	—
adessive	Donnál	—
illative	Donba	—
sublative	Donra	—
allative	Donhoz	—
elative	Donból	—
delative	Donról	—
ablative	Dontól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Doné	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Donéi	—

Possessive forms of Don
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Donom	—
2nd person sing.	Donod	—
3rd person sing.	Donja	—
1st person plural	Donunk	—
2nd person plural	Donotok	—
3rd person plural	Donjuk	—

Don ?

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

Borrowed from Russian Дон (Don), from Old East Slavic Донъ (Donŭ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: Don

Don m inan

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

• Don in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• D.

From Latin domĭnus (“sir, mister, senior”).

Don m (plural Dones, feminine Doña, feminine plural Doñas)

1. title of respect for a man: sir
   • 1995, Luis "Checho" González (lyrics and music), “Mi General Augusto Pinochet”, in Himno en Honor al Capitán General Don Augusto Pinochet Ugarte – Apología y marchas al Ejército de Chile:

     Mi general, Augusto Pinochet / Usted es el nuevo Padre de la patria / Está su nombre en la historia de Chile / Como lo ha sido Don Bernardo O'Higgins

     My general, Augusto Pinochet / You are the new Father of the country / Your name is in the history of Chile / As was Sir Bernardo O'Higgins

• → Tagalog: Don

• don
• doña
• dueño

Borrowed from Spanish Don.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdon/ [ˈd̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Don

Don (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜈ᜔)

1. title of a gentleman: sir; Sir

   Synonyms: Ginoo, Maginoo, Senyor

• ser
• mamsir