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maidan

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Pronunciation
/maɪˈdɑːn/(UK)
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/maɪˈdɑːn/(UK) · /ˈmaɪdɑːn/(UK) · /maɪˈdɑn/(US)

Definition of maidan

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (South-Asia)A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
    “Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.”
    “Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].”
    “M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan”
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noun

  1. (South-Asia)A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
    “Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.”
    “Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].”
    “M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan”
  2. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  3. 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.

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.

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Etymology

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…

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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.

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