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))
- square (open space in a city)
- battlefield
- field, sphere (e.g. of study)
- Synonym: مَجال (majāl)
Declension
| 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:
- Classical Syriac: ܡܝܕܐܢ (maydāʾn)
- → Azerbaijani: meydan (or via Persian)
- → Bashkir: майҙан (mayźan) (or via Persian)
- → Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
- → Gurani: مەیڎان (mayḏan)
- → Kipchak:
- Armeno-Kipchak: մօյտան (mōytan)
- Cuman: maydan
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (meydân)
- → Indonesian: medan
- 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)
- → Spanish: almidana
- → Swahili: medani
- → Ukrainian: майда́н (majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
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 [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot][1], 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 [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 156
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology 1
From Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miː.daːn/, [miˈdæːn], [miˈdaːn]
Audio (Amman): (file)
Noun
ميدان • (mīdān) m (plural ميادين (mayādīn))
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Noun
ميدان • (maydān) m (plural ميادين (mayādīn))