ميدان

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”).

• IPA^(key): /maj.daːn/

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)

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• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܕܐܢ‎ (maydāʾn)
• → 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)
  • → Belarusian: майда́н (majdán)
  • → Polish: majdan
• → Spanish: almidana

• 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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 156

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

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

1. square, plaza

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

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