junak

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *junъ (“young”) +‎ *-akъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.nak/

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• Rhymes: -unak
• Syllabification: ju‧nak

junak m pers (diminutive junaczek)

1. (dialectal) gay blade

   Synonyms: chojrak, chwat, śmiałek, zuch

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *junakъ. From Proto-Slavic *junъ (“young”) +‎ *-akъ (masculine nominalizing suffix cognate to Serbo-Croatian -ak). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic юнакъ (junakŭ), Czech jonák (Moravian Czech junák), Polish junak, Bulgarian юна́к (junák).

• IPA^(key): /jǔnaːk/
• Hyphenation: ju‧nak

jùnāk m anim (Cyrillic spelling ју̀на̄к, female equivalent junàkinja, augmentative junačina)

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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:junak.

• superjunak

• “junak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *junakъ.

• IPA^(key): /junàːk/

junák m anim (female equivalent junákinja)

1. hero

   Synonym: heroj

• “junak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “junak”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references