ميدان

See also: میدان

Arabic

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing; ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mádyanah (middle, noun), from *mádyah (middle, adjective) + *-nah (nominal suffix). Compare Middle Persian mdyʾn' (*mayān, middle; among, between), whence Persian میان (miyân)), Parthian mdyʾn (*maẟyān, among, amid, between), Sogdian [script needed] (myẟʾn /⁠*mēẟan⁠/, middle), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maiδiiāna, middle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maj.daːn/

Noun

مَيْدَان • (maydān) m (plural مَيَادِين (mayādīn))

  1. square (open space in a city)
  2. battlefield
  3. field, sphere (e.g. of study)
    Synonym: مَجال (majāl)

Declension

Descendants

  • Aramaic:
  • Azerbaijani: meydan (or via Persian)
  • Bashkir: майҙан (mayźan) (or via Persian)
  • Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
  • Gurani: مەیڎان (mayḏan)
  • Kipchak:
    Armeno-Kipchak: մօյտան (mōytan)
    Cuman: maydan
    Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (meydân)
  • Indonesian: medan
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: meydan
    Central Kurdish: مەیدان (meydan), مەیان (meyan)
  • → Luri:
    Northern Luri: مؽدۏ (mêdö)
  • French: maidan, maïdan
  • Middle Armenian: մայտան (maytan), մէյդան (mēydan), մոյտան (moytan), մօյտան (mōytan), մէտան (mētan) (some forms via Persian, Ottoman Turkish or another Turkic language)
    • Armenian: մեյդան (meydan), մեյտան (meytan) (in some dialects from Ottoman Turkish)
  • Persian: میدان (meydân), میادین (mayâdin) (see there for further descendants)
  • Russian: майда́н (majdán), маида́н (maidán), мойда́н (mojdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
    • Buryat: майдаан (majdaan)
  • Ukrainian: майда́н (majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
  • Spanish: almidana

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meydan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 108b
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1110. Migdáne”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 156

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː.daːn/, [miˈdæːn], [miˈdaːn]
  • (file)

Noun

ميدان • (mīdān) m (plural ميادين (mayādīn))

  1. square, plaza

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).

Noun

ميدان • (maydān) m (plural ميادين (mayādīn))

  1. (formal) square, plaza
  2. field, sphere, arena (abstract sense)
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