majdan

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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majd +‎ -an

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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majdan (not comparable)

  1. (dated, literary) Alternative form of majd (some day, some time, in a distant future)
    Antonym: (in the distant past) hajdan

Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish معدن (ma'den), from Arabic مَعْدِ (maʕdi).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmaj.dan/
  • Rhymes: -ajdan
  • Syllabification: maj‧dan

Noun

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majdan m inan

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

Declension

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Further reading

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  • majdan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • majdan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish معدن (ma'den), from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin, mine).

Noun

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majdan m (Cyrillic spelling мајдан)

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