megdan
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare mèjdān.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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
Declension edit
Declension of megdan
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “megdan” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904-1910), “mègdān”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 581