мејдан
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Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare мѐгда̄н.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]мѐјда̄н m (Latin spelling mèjdān)
- a larger empty area in a city, usually of Oriental type; square, field
- (metonymically) cattle fair or exhibition
- (figuratively) public exposition of something
- Alternative form of мѐгда̄н
- 1891, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Srpske narodne pjesme:
- 1891, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Srpske narodne pjesme:
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