huligan

See also: huligán

Crimean Tatar

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hu‧li‧gan

Noun

huligan

2. hooligan (person that causes trouble or violence)

Declension

Declension of huligan

	singular	plural
nominative	huligan	huliganlar
genitive	huligannıñ	huliganlarnıñ
dative	huliganqa	huliganlarğa
accusative	huligannı	huliganlarnı
locative	huliganta	huliganlarda
ablative	huligantan	huliganlardan

Derived terms

• huliganlıq (“hooliganism”)

References

• “huligan”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos

Proto-Celtic *awyos

Primitive Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi)

Old Irish aue

Irish uader.

Irish óder.

Irish Ó

Irish uallachder.

Irish Uallachán

Irish Ó hUallacháinder.

English Houlihander.

English hooliganbor.

Polish huligan

Borrowed from English hooligan. Now considered by prescriptivists as a misspelling of chuligan (spelled as such due to Russian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xuˈli.ɡan/
• Rhymes: -iɡan
• Syllabification: hu‧li‧gan
• Homophone: chuligan

Noun

huligan m pers

2. (nonstandard, proscribed) alternative form of chuligan (“hooligan”) (person that causes trouble or violence)
   • 1924, Jan Żyznowski, Kamienie ugorne. Powieść [The Fallow Stones. A Novel]‎^[1], quoted in NFJP, Warszawa: Gebethner i Wolff, published 1924, page 279, lines 14–20:

     — Nie życzę im tego! Patrzy pan na mnie ze zdziwieniem, rozumiem pana, postaram się mu jednak rzecz wytłumaczyć obszerniej. Kim był legjonista w przeszłości? Bandyta, awanturnik, zawiedzony kochanek, niemiecki dezerter, huligan rosyjski, książe degenerat, szuler, morderca, młodzieniec marzyciel, uciekinier z więzienia i t. d.

     — I don't wish them that! You're looking at me with astonishment, I understand you, but I'll try to explain the matter to him more at length. Who was the “legionnaire” in the past? A bandit, a provocateur, a disappointed lover, a German deserter, a Russian hooligan, a prince-degenerate, a cardsharp, a murderer, a youngster-dreamer, a prison fugitive etc.

Declension

Declension of huligan

	singular	plural
nominative	huligan	huligani/huligany (deprecative)
genitive	huligana	huliganów
dative	huliganowi	huliganom
accusative	huligana	huliganów
instrumental	huliganem	huliganami
locative	huliganie	huliganach
vocative	huliganie	huligani

Further reading

• huligan in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Alternative forms

• хулиган (huligan) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from English hooligan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu.liˈɡan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: hu‧li‧gan

Noun

huligan m (plural huligani)

2. hooligan (person that causes trouble or violence)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	huligan	huliganul	huligani	huliganii
genitive-dative	huligan	huliganului	huligani	huliganilor
vocative	huliganule		huliganilor

Further reading

• “huligan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English hooligan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xûliɡaːn/
• Hyphenation: hu‧li‧gan

Noun

hȕligān m anim (Cyrillic spelling ху̏лига̄н)

2. hooligan (person that causes trouble or violence)

Declension

Declension of huligan

	singular	plural
nominative	huligan	huligani
genitive	huligana	huligana
dative	huliganu	huliganima
accusative	huligana	huligane
vocative	huligane	huligani
locative	huliganu	huliganima
instrumental	huliganom	huliganima

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hooligan. First attested in 1905, but in common usage only as of the 1970s

Noun

huligan c

2. hooligan (person that causes trouble or violence)

Declension

Declension of huligan

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	huligan	huligans
	definite	huliganen	huliganens
plural	indefinite	huliganer	huliganers
	definite	huliganerna	huliganernas

Derived terms

• fotbollshuligan

Related terms

• huliganism (“hooliganism”)

See also

• ligist
• vandal

References

• “huligan”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “huligan”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “huligan”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)