megdan

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

mèjdān

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish meydan), from Persian (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان‎ (maydān). Compare mèjdān.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /měɡdaːn/
Hyphenation: meg‧dan

Noun

mègdān m (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н)

(historical) a type of competition in physical training organized in the medieval Balkans during the Ottoman Empire

(regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) battle, duel, fight

Declension

Declension of megdan

	singular	plural
nominative	mègdān	megdani
genitive	megdána	megdana
dative	megdanu	megdanima
accusative	megdan	megdane
vocative	megdane	megdani
locative	megdanu	megdanima
instrumental	megdanom	megdanima

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