majdan

Hungarian

Etymology

From majd (“sometime, later”) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒjdɒn]
• Rhymes: -ɒn
• Hyphenation: maj‧dan

Adverb

majdan (not comparable)

1. (higher register, dated) alternative form of majd (“some day, some time”, in a distant future)

   Antonym: (in the distant past) hajdan

Derived terms

• majdani

Further reading

• majdan in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ميدان (meydan).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj.dan/

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): [ˈmaj.dan]
• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈmaj.dan]

• Rhymes: -ajdan
• Syllabification: maj‧dan

Noun

majdan m inan

1. (colloquial) clobber (clothing; equipment)
2. (historical) yard (enclosed area for a specific purpose)

   Synonym: plac

   1. (Kuyavia, Near Masovian) clearing in a forest for sawyers, staves are made, or coal is burnt, etc.

Declension

Declension of majdan

	singular	plural
nominative	majdan	majdany
genitive	majdana/majdanu	majdanów
dative	majdanowi	majdanom
accusative	majdan	majdany
instrumental	majdanem	majdanami
locative	majdanie	majdanach
vocative	majdanie	majdany

Further reading

• “majdan”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “majdan”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Władysław Matlakowski (1892), “majdan”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 11

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عَدَنَ (ʕadana)

Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin)bor.

Ottoman Turkish معدن (maden)bor.

Serbo-Croatian majdan

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish معدن (maden), borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin), from عَدَنَ (ʕadana).

Noun

majdan m inan (Cyrillic spelling мајдан)

1. (regional) mine
2. (regional) pit