maidan

See also: Maidan, máidān, and mǎidān

English

Alternative forms

• meidan

Etymology 1

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maɪˈdɑːn/, /ˈmaɪdɑːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /maɪˈdɑn/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːn, (US) -ɑn

Noun

maidan (plural maidans)

1. (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

Alternative forms

• meidan

Translations

marketplace or other open space

• Arabic: مَيْدَان (ar) m (maydān)
• Azerbaijani: meydan (az)
• Bengali: ময়দান (bn) (môẏdan)
• Hindi: मैदान (hi) m (maidān)
• Hungarian: főtér (hu), piactér (hu), (tágas) tér
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meydan (ku)

• Pashto: ميدان m (maydān)
• Persian: مِیدان (fa) (meydân)
• Spanish: meidán m
• Tajik: майдон (tg) (maydon)
• Turkish: meydan (tr)
• Turkmen: meýdan (tk)
• Ukrainian: майда́н (uk) m (majdán)
• Urdu: مَیْدَانْ m (maidān)
• Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)
• Uzbek: maydon (uz)

References

• “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

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)

1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine. [from 1993]
2. 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

• Damian, aidman, Mandia, Madani, Aminda, Dai Nam

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan, “square, open space”), from Persian میدان (meydân), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).

Noun

maidan n (plural maidane)

1. open space, undeveloped land within a city

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	maidan	maidanul		maidane	maidanele
genitive-dative	maidan	maidanului		maidane	maidanelor
vocative	maidanule			maidanelor

Derived terms

• maidanez