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旦那
だんな
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master (of house), husband (informal)
Danna is from Middle Chinese 旦那 and 檀那, both used as transliterations of a Sanskrit word for “generosity, giving, donating”.
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From Middle Chinese 旦那 (MC tanH na), 檀那 (MC dan na), both used as transliterations of Sanskrit दान (dā́na, “generosity, giving, donating”). Ultimately cognate with English donate and donor, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom.”
- “Attested in Japanese sinophone sources since at least the 1000s and in vernacular Japanese sources since at least 1287.”
Source: Wiktionary: 旦那 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.