megdan

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare mèjdān.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /měɡdaːn/
  • Hyphenation: meg‧dan

Noun

mègdān m inan (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н)

  1. duelling grounds, battlefield
  2. (historical) a type of physical competition or tournament organized in the medieval Balkans under the Ottoman Empire, typically including leaping, horseback riding, stone and lance throwing, etc.
  3. (regional, expressive, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people
  4. (regional, expressive, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies

Declension

Declension of megdan
singular plural
nominative mègdān megdani
genitive megdána megdana
dative megdanu megdanima
accusative megdan megdane
vocative megdane megdani
locative megdanu megdanima
instrumental megdanom megdanima

Derived terms

References

  • “megdan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “mègdān”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 581
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