maidan
English edit
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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
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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.
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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 |