maidan

See also: máidān and mǎidān

English

Etymology 1

From Urdu میدان‎ (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان‎ (meydân, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان‎ (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀‎ (maiδya), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mʌɪˈdɑːn/, /ˈmʌɪdɑːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /maɪˈdɑn/

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 2005, p. 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

Etymology 2

1993, from Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان‎ (meydân), from the same Persian source as above.

Alternative forms

  • Maydan

Noun

Maidan (plural Maidans or maidans)

  1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kiev, Ukraine.
  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.
  • anti-maidan, antiMaidan
  • AutoMaidan
  • Euromaidan, EuroMaidan

Quotations

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish meydan (“square, open space”).

Noun

maidan n (plural maidane)

  1. open space

Declension

Derived terms

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