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Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish mieszczanin (“burgher, townsman”), with -анин (-anyn) suffix. Compare Russian мещани́н (meščanín), Belarusian мешчані́н (mješčanín).
Doublet of містяни́н (mistjanýn).
Pronunciation
Noun
міщани́н • (miščanýn) m pers (genitive міщани́на, nominative plural міща́ни, genitive plural міща́н, feminine міща́нка, relational adjective міща́нський)
- (historical) petit bourgeois, petty bourgeois (member of a social estate in the Russian Empire comprising the urban lower middle class)
- Hypernyms: городя́нин m (horodjányn), містяни́н m (mistjanýn)
- (figuratively, derogatory) narrow-minded person, philistine
- Synonyms: обива́тель m (obyvátelʹ), філі́стер m (filíster)
Declension
Declension of міщани́н (pers hard masc-form accent-a)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “міщанин”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2018), “міщанин”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 9 (міщани́н – насту́кувати), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “міщанин”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “міщанин”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “міщанин”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)