maidan
English
Alternative forms
- meidan
Etymology 1
From Hindi मैदान (maidān)/Urdu میدان (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, “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 2005, p. 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
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 5:
Alternative forms
- meidan
Translations
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References
- “maidan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “maidan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “maidan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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
- Maydan
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
- anti-maidan, antiMaidan
- AutoMaidan
- Euromaidan, EuroMaidan
Further reading
- Maidan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maidan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
See also
- maiden
- meidan
- meiden
Anagrams
- Aminda, Dai Nam, Damian, Madani, aidman
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
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
- maidanez