Macedonian

Noun

јунак • ‎(junak) m ‎(plural јунаци)

1. hero
2. young man

Inflection

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǔnaːk/
• Hyphenation: ју‧нак

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *junъ ‎(“young”) + *-akъ (masculine nominalizing suffix cognate to Serbo-Croatian "-ак"). Cognate with Church Slavonic юнакъ ‎(junakŭ), Czech jonák (Moravian Czech junák), Polish junak, Bulgarian юнак ‎(junak).

Noun

ју̀на̄к m ‎(Latin spelling jùnāk)

1. (archaic) young man
2. (by semantic narrowing) soldier [Attested from 1399 onward.]
3. (thence by semantic widening) hero, brave or strong man [Attested from XVI century onward.]
4. (archaic) husband
5. (archaic) servant
6. (literary) brave horse of a hero

Declension

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:junak.