Macedonian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یابان (Turkish yaban), from Persian یابان (yâbân).

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Noun edit

јабана (jabanaf (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) foreign country, foreign land
    Synonyms: туѓина f (tuǵina), странство n (stranstvo)

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References edit

  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “јабана”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language]‎[1] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 75