Dschunke

German

Alternative forms

• Junke, Juncke (archaic)

Etymology

From Italian giunco / giunca, from Portuguese junco, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Compare English junk, Dutch jonk, French jonque, Spanish junco.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Dschunke f (genitive Dschunke, plural Dschunken)

1. junk (Chinese sailing vessel)

Declension

Declension of Dschunke [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Dschunke	die	Dschunken
genitive	einer	der	Dschunke	der	Dschunken
dative	einer	der	Dschunke	den	Dschunken
accusative	eine	die	Dschunke	die	Dschunken

Further reading

• “Dschunke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Dschunke” in Duden online
• Dschunke on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “junk, n.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024.