میدان
See also: ميدان
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian میدان (meydān, “square, plaza”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān, “square”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mádyanah (“middle”).
Noun edit
میدان • (meydan) (definite accusative میدانی (meydanı), plural میادین (meyadin))
Derived terms edit
- آت میدانی (at meydanı, “racecourse”)
- میدان آرامق (meydan aramak, “to seek an opportunity”)
- میدان آلمق (meydan almak, “to get a good start”)
- میدان اوقومق (meydan okumak, “to provoke”)
- میدان بولمق (meydan bolmak, “to find space”)
- میدان حرب (meydan-ı harb, “battlefield”)
- میدان سوپورگه‌سی (meydan süpürgesi, “broom, besom”)
- میدان گلمك (meydan gelmek, “to reach maturity”)
- میدانسز (meydansız, “narrow, confined”)
- میدانلو (meydanlı, “spacious, wide”)
- میدانه قویمق (meydana koymak, “to exhibit; to reveal”)
- میدانه چیقارمق (meydana çıkarmak, “to publish”)
- میدانه چیقمق (meydana çıkmak, “to come out into the open”)
- میدانگاه (meydangâh, “public square”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: meydan
- → Albanian: mejdan
- → Aromanian: migdane, migdãni, miydane
- → Bulgarian: мегда́н (megdán)
- → Crimean Tatar: meydan
- → Czech: mejdan
- → Greek: μεϊντάνι (meïntáni)
- → Macedonian: мегдан (megdan)
- → Romanian: maidan
- → Serbo-Croatian: mègdān / мѐгда̄н, mèjdān / мѐјда̄н
- → Tatar: мәйдан (mäydan)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meydan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3184
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “meydân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 762
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میدان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1255
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Campus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 140
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میدان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5068
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meydan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2052
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing. Doublet of میان (miyân).
Pronunciation edit
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- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maj.ˈdɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mej.d̪ɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | maydān |
| Dari reading? | maydān |
| Iranian reading? | meydân |
| Tajik reading? | maydon |
Noun edit
| Dari | میدان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | майдон |
میدان • (meydân) (plural میدان‌ها (meydân-hâ))
- plaza, square (of a town etc.)
- میدان آزادی ― meydân-e âzâdi ― Azadi Square
- field, plain
- battlefield; (metonymically) battle
- (mathematics, physics) field
- میدان مغناطیسی ― meydân-e mağnâtisi ― magnetic field
- (Sufism, uncommon) stage of the mystical path
- Synonym: (more common) منزل (manzel)
Descendants edit
- Tajik: майдон (maydon)
- → Uzbek: maydon
- → Assamese: ময়দান (moyodan)
- → Azerbaijani: meydan
- → Braj: मैदान (maidān)
- → Middle Bengali: ময়দান (moẏodan)
- Bengali: ময়দান (moẏodan)
- → Dhivehi: މައިޒާން (maizān̊)
- → Dogri: madān
- → Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
- → Gojri: میدان (maidān)
- → Gujarati: મેદાન (medān)
- → Hindustani: maidān
- → Kannada: ಮೈದಾನ (maidāna)
- → Kashmiri: mạ̄dān
- → Kazakh: майдан (maidan)
- → Konkani:
- → Kumyk: майдан (maydan)
- → Lezgi: майдан (majdan)
- → Maithili: medān
- → Malayalam: മൈദാനം (maidānaṁ)
- → Malvi: मेदान (medān)
- → Marathi: maidān
- → Marwari:
- → Nepali: मैदान (maidān)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میدان (meydân)
- → Odia: ମଇଦାନ (môidanô)
- → Old Punjabi: ਮੈਦਾਨੁ (maidānu)
- → Sindhi: maidānu
- → Telugu: మైదానము (maidānamu)
- → Ukrainian: майдан (majdan) (via a Turkic language)
- → Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)
- → Uzbek: maydon
- → Khorezmian Turkic: ميدان (mäydan)
- → Zazaki: meydan
References edit
- Durkin, Philip (2004) “Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED: Some questions of classification”, in Christian J. Kay, Simon Horobin, Jeremy J. Smith, editors, New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 252), John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 83
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian میدان (maydān), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɛː.d̪ɑːn/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: مَے‧دان
Noun edit
مَیدان • (maidān) m (Hindi spelling मैदान)
Declension edit
| Declension of میدان | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدان (maidān) |
| oblique | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدانوں (maidānō̃) |
| vocative | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدانو (maidānō) |
Further reading edit
- “میدان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “میدان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “میدان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “میدان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “میدان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “میدان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC