ميدان

See also: میدان‎

Arabic

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maj.daːn/

Noun

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)

Declension
Declension of noun مَيْدَان (maydān)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَيْدَان
maydān		 الْمَيْدَان‎
al-maydān		 مَيْدَان
maydān
Nominative مَيْدَانٌ
maydānun		 الْمَيْدَانُ‎
al-maydānu		 مَيْدَانُ
maydānu
Accusative مَيْدَانًا‎
maydānan		 الْمَيْدَانَ‎
al-maydāna		 مَيْدَانَ
maydāna
Genitive مَيْدَانٍ
maydānin		 الْمَيْدَانِ‎
al-maydāni		 مَيْدَانِ
maydāni
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَيْدَانَيْن‎
maydānayn		 الْمَيْدَانَيْن‎
al-maydānayn		 مَيْدَانَيْ‎
maydānay
Nominative مَيْدَانَانِ‎
maydānāni		 الْمَيْدَانَانِ‎
al-maydānāni		 مَيْدَانَا‎
maydānā
Accusative مَيْدَانَيْنِ‎
maydānayni		 الْمَيْدَانَيْنِ‎
al-maydānayni		 مَيْدَانَيْ‎
maydānay
Genitive مَيْدَانَيْنِ‎
maydānayni		 الْمَيْدَانَيْنِ‎
al-maydānayni		 مَيْدَانَيْ‎
maydānay
Plural basic broken plural diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَيَادِين‎
mayādīn		 الْمَيَادِين‎
al-mayādīn		 مَيَادِين‎
mayādīn
Nominative مَيَادِينُ‎
mayādīnu		 الْمَيَادِينُ‎
al-mayādīnu		 مَيَادِينُ‎
mayādīnu
Accusative مَيَادِينَ‎
mayādīna		 الْمَيَادِينَ‎
al-mayādīna		 مَيَادِينَ‎
mayādīna
Genitive مَيَادِينَ‎
mayādīna		 الْمَيَادِينِ‎
al-mayādīni		 مَيَادِينِ‎
mayādīni

Descendants
  • → Aramaic:
  • → Azerbaijani: meydan (or via Persian)
  • → Bashkir: майҙан (mayðan) (or via Persian)
  • → Gurani: مەیڎان‎ (mayḏan)
  • → Kipchak:
    Armeno-Kipchak: մօյտան (mōytan)
    Cuman: maydan
    Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (meydân)
  • 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)
  • → Spanish: almidana

References
  • 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

South Levantine Arabic
‏ميدان التحرير في القاهرة‎‎ ― Tahrir Square in Cairo

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَيْدَان‎ (maydān).

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

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

  1. square, plaza

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَيْدَان‎ (maydān).

Noun

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

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