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 (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н)

  1. (historical) a type of competition in physical training organized in the medieval Balkans during the Ottoman Empire
  1. (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) battle, duel, fight

Declension

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