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Serbo-Croatian
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)
- duelling grounds, battlefield
- (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.
- (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people
- (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies
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References
- “megdan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “mègdān”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 581