megdan

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mèjdān

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)

1. duelling grounds, battlefield
2. (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.
3. (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people
4. (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies

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

Derived terms

• od megdana

References

• “megdan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “mègdān”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 581