maidan
English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maiδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /maɪˈdɑːn/, /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /maɪˈdɑn/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːn, (US) -ɑn
Noun
maidan (plural maidans)
- (chiefly South Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade. [from 16th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 5:
- Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84:
- Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
- M. Crawford
- a gallop on the green maidan
Alternative forms
Translations
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References
- “maidan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “maidan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “maidan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Etymology 2
From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.
Alternative forms
Noun
Maidan (plural Maidans or maidans)
- Independence Square, the main city square in Kiev, Ukraine. [from 1993]
- The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:maidan.
Related terms
Further reading
- Maidan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maidan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
See also
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan, “square, open space”), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Noun
maidan n (plural maidane)
- open space, undeveloped land within a city
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) maidan | maidanul | (niște) maidane | maidanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) maidan | maidanului | (unor) maidane | maidanelor |
vocative | maidanule | maidanelor |
Derived terms
- English terms borrowed from Hindustani languages
- English terms derived from Hindustani languages
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Iranian languages
- English terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑːn
- Rhymes:English/ɑːn/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑn
- Rhymes:English/ɑn/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- South Asian English
- English terms with quotations
- English terms derived from Ukrainian
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Persian
- Romanian terms derived from Arabic
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns