maidan
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /maɪˈdɑːn/, /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /maɪˈdɑn/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːn, (US) -ɑn
Noun
[edit]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
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References
[edit]- “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
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:maidan.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Maidan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Maidan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan, “square, open space”), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Noun
[edit]maidan n (plural maidane)
- open space, undeveloped land within a city
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- 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 links
- 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