майданъ

Borrowed from Turkic language, probably from Crimean Tatar meydan or Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), further borrowed from Persian میدان (meydân), borrowed from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), borrowed from Old Persian *madyānaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Doublet of межа́ (mežá). Cognate with Russian майда́н (majdán) (from Middle Russian маида́нъ (maidán)). First attested in the early 1600s.

майданъ • (majdan) m inan

1. public square
2. a place to make or store something

• Майда́нъ (Majdán) (Old Ukrainian surname)

• Belarusian: майда́н (majdán)
• Carpathian Rusyn: майда́н (majdán)
• Ukrainian: майда́н (majdán)
  • → English: Maidan

• Chikalo, M. I., editor (2017), “майданъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 17 (м – моавитѧнка), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 15
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “майданъ”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 417