میدانی
Persian
editEtymology
editFrom میدان (meydân) + ـی (-i).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maj.dɑː.ˈniː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mejd̪ɒː.níː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɔ.ní]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | maydānī |
Dari reading? | maydānī |
Iranian reading? | meydâni |
Tajik reading? | maydoni |
Adjective
editمیدانی • (meydâni)
- relating to a square or plaza
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 90:
- بچوگان سر زلف سری دارم ولی کز عشق
چه داند قدر سربازی من آن ترک میدانی- ba-čawgān-i sar-i zulf sarē dāram walē k-az išq
či dānad qadr-i sarbāzī-yi man ān turk-i maydānī - Out of love, my head is [a ball] for the polo stick of [the beloved's] tresses, and yet
How shall that Turk on the [polo] field know the worth of my courage [lit. gambling my head]?
- ba-čawgān-i sar-i zulf sarē dāram walē k-az išq
Further reading
edit- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “میدانی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press