"megdan" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Serbo-Croatian]

IPA: /měɡdaːn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare mèjdān. Etymology templates: {{bor+|sh|ota|میدان}} Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان, {{cog|tr|meydan}} Turkish meydan, {{der|sh|fa|میدان|tr=meydân}} Persian میدان (meydân), {{der|sh|ar|مَيْدَان}} Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān) Head templates: {{sh-noun|g=m|head=mègdān}} mègdān m (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н) Forms: mègdān [canonical, masculine], мѐгда̄н [Cyrillic], no-table-tags [table-tags], mègdān [nominative, singular], megdani [nominative, plural], megdána [genitive, singular], megdana [genitive, plural], megdanu [dative, singular], megdanima [dative, plural], megdan [accusative, singular], megdane [accusative, plural], megdane [singular, vocative], megdani [plural, vocative], megdanu [locative, singular], megdanima [locative, plural], megdanom [instrumental, singular], megdanima [instrumental, plural], mèjdān [alternative]
  1. duelling grounds, battlefield
    Sense id: en-megdan-sh-noun-LtpWVfOn
  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. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-megdan-sh-noun-huCToN4s
  3. (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people Tags: expressively, regional
    Sense id: en-megdan-sh-noun-uVxpk~yB Categories (other): Regional Serbo-Croatian
  4. (regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies Tags: broadly, expressively, regional
    Sense id: en-megdan-sh-noun-PGX5j90B Categories (other): Regional Serbo-Croatian, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 36 12 44 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 33 10 50 Disambiguation of Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header: 5 24 26 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: od megdana
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "od megdana"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "میدان"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tr",
        "2": "meydan"
      },
      "expansion": "Turkish meydan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "میدان",
        "tr": "meydân"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian میدان (meydân)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "مَيْدَان"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare mèjdān.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mègdān",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "мѐгда̄н",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mègdān",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdána",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdana",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "megdani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mèjdān",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "head": "mègdān"
      },
      "expansion": "mègdān m (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н)",
      "name": "sh-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "meg‧dan"
  ],
  "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
  "lang_code": "sh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "duelling grounds, battlefield"
      ],
      "id": "en-megdan-sh-noun-LtpWVfOn",
      "links": [
        [
          "duelling",
          "duelling"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "battlefield",
          "battlefield"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-megdan-sh-noun-huCToN4s",
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "tournament",
          "tournament"
        ],
        [
          "medieval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "Balkans",
          "Balkans"
        ],
        [
          "Ottoman Empire",
          "Ottoman Empire"
        ],
        [
          "leap",
          "leap"
        ],
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "riding",
          "riding"
        ],
        [
          "stone",
          "stone"
        ],
        [
          "lance",
          "lance"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Regional Serbo-Croatian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "duel, battle between two people"
      ],
      "id": "en-megdan-sh-noun-uVxpk~yB",
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "duel",
          "duel"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "folk poetry and oral literature",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "expressively",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Regional Serbo-Croatian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "_dis": "8 36 12 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 33 10 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 24 26 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "battle, fight between two armies"
      ],
      "id": "en-megdan-sh-noun-PGX5j90B",
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ],
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "armies",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "folk poetry and oral literature",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "expressively",
        "regional"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/měɡdaːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megdan"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Serbo-Croatian lemmas",
    "Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns",
    "Serbo-Croatian nouns",
    "Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Arabic",
    "Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Persian"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "od megdana"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "میدان"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tr",
        "2": "meydan"
      },
      "expansion": "Turkish meydan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "میدان",
        "tr": "meydân"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian میدان (meydân)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "مَيْدَان"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (Turkish meydan), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān). Compare mèjdān.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mègdān",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "мѐгда̄н",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mègdān",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdána",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdana",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdane",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdani",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "megdanima",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mèjdān",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "head": "mègdān"
      },
      "expansion": "mègdān m (Cyrillic spelling мѐгда̄н)",
      "name": "sh-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "meg‧dan"
  ],
  "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
  "lang_code": "sh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "duelling grounds, battlefield"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "duelling",
          "duelling"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "battlefield",
          "battlefield"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Serbo-Croatian terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical"
        ],
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "tournament",
          "tournament"
        ],
        [
          "medieval",
          "medieval"
        ],
        [
          "Balkans",
          "Balkans"
        ],
        [
          "Ottoman Empire",
          "Ottoman Empire"
        ],
        [
          "leap",
          "leap"
        ],
        [
          "horseback",
          "horseback"
        ],
        [
          "riding",
          "riding"
        ],
        [
          "stone",
          "stone"
        ],
        [
          "lance",
          "lance"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ]
      ],
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        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Regional Serbo-Croatian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "duel, battle between two people"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
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        ],
        [
          "duel",
          "duel"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature) duel, battle between two people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "expressively",
        "regional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Regional Serbo-Croatian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "battle, fight between two armies"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ],
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "armies",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "folk poetry and oral literature",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(regional, expressively, folk poetry and oral literature, by extension) battle, fight between two armies"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "expressively",
        "regional"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/měɡdaːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megdan"
}

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