majdan

Hungarian

Etymology

majd +‎ -an

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒjdɒn]
  • Hyphenation: maj‧dan
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

majdan (not comparable)

  1. (dated, literary) alternative form of majd (“some day, some time”, in a distant future)
    Antonym: (in the distant past) hajdan

Derived terms

Further reading

  • majdan in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish معدن (ma'den), from Arabic مَعْدِ (maʕdi).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaj.dan/
  • Rhymes: -ajdan
  • Syllabification: maj‧dan

Noun

majdan m inan

  1. (colloquial) clobber (clothing; equipment)
  2. (historical) yard (enclosed area for a specific purpose)
    Synonym: plac
    1. (Kuyavia, Near Masovian) clearing in a forest for sawyers, staves are made, or coal is burnt, etc.

Declension

Declension of majdan
singular plural
nominative majdan majdany
genitive majdana/majdanu majdanów
dative majdanowi majdanom
accusative majdan majdany
instrumental majdanem majdanami
locative majdanie majdanach
vocative majdanie majdany

Further reading

  • majdan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • majdan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “majdan”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 11

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish معدن (ma'den), from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin, “mine”).

Noun

majdan m inan (Cyrillic spelling мајдан)

  1. (regional) mine
  2. (regional) pit
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