махнит

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Uncertain. A derivation has been suggested from Ottoman Turkish معند (muʼannit) (ultimately active participle of form II from the Arabic root ع ن د (ʕ-n-d)), or less likely from Greek μάνητα (mánita, “madness”), both of which, however, would leave the h in the word unexplained. To supply this deficiency, influence from native ма́хати (“to wave”), ма̑х (“swing, wave, sweep”) has been proposed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǎxnit/
  • Hyphenation: мах‧нит

Adjective

ма̀хнит (Latin spelling màhnit)

  1. frantic, crazed, frenzied, raging [15th century]
  2. crazy in general, mad, insane
  3. foolhardy, crazily brave
  4. (+ za) crazy for something or someone; enthusiastic about, desirous for, or in love with to an extreme degree
  5. (of dogs) rabid, afflicted with rabies

Alternative forms

References

  • “махнит”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “màhnit”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 377
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