میدانی

Persian

Etymology

From (meydân) +‎ (-i, suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /maj.daː.ˈniː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.d̪ɑː.níː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäj.d̪ɑː.níː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäj.d̪ɔː.ní]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mej.d̪ɒː.níː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.d̪ɔ.ní]

Readings
Classical reading^?	maydānī
Dari reading^?	maydānī
Iranian reading^?	meydâni
Tajik reading^?	maydoni

Adjective

میدانی • (meydâni)

relating to a square or plaza
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 90:
  بچوگان سر زلف سری دارم ولی کز عشق
  چه داند قدر سربازی من آن ترک میدانی
  ba-čawgān-i sar-i zulf sarē dāram walē k-az išq
  či dānad qadr-i sarbāzī-yi man ān turk-i maydānī
  Out of love, my head is [a ball] for the polo stick of [the beloved's] tresses, and yet
  How shall that Turk on the [polo] field know the worth of my courage [lit. gambling my head]?
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “میدانی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press