میده

Persian

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mayda
Dari reading? mayda
Iranian reading? meyde
Tajik reading? mayda

Noun

میده • (mayda / meyde) (Classical Persian, now archaic)

  1. fine wheat flour; sifted flour
  2. white bread (bread made from refined flour)
  3. a kind of sweetmeat made with grape syrup and starch

Adjective

میده • (mayda / meyde) (Dari)

  1. broken, shattered
  2. smashed, crushed
  3. ground (up), pulverised
  4. small, fine
    Synonyms: ریزه (rēza / rize), کوچک (kōčak / kučak)

Derived terms

  • میده کردن (mayda kardan / meyde kardan, “to grind, to pulverise [flour]”, Dari also “to break, smash”)

Descendants

  • → Assamese: ময়দা (moyoda)
  • → Bengali: ময়দা (moẏda)
  • → Gujarati: મેંદો (mendo)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मैदा (maidā)
    Urdu: مَیدا (maidā), مَیدَہ (maida)
  • → Maithili:
    Devanagari script: मेदा
    Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒹𑒠𑒰
  • → Marathi: मैदा (maidā)
  • → Marwari: मैदौ (maidau)
  • → Nepali: मैदा (maidā)
  • → Odia: ମଇଦା (maidā)
  • → Old Punjabi: ਮੈਦਾ (maidā)
    • Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਮੈਦਾ (maidā)
      Shahmukhi script: مَیدَہ (maidah)
  • → Sindhi: maido
    Arabic script: مَيْدو
    Devanagari script: मैदो

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mīda
Dari reading? mīda
Iranian reading? mide
Tajik reading? mida

Noun

میده • (mīda / mide) (Classical Persian, now archaic)

  1. a chaste woman

Further reading

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “میده”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “میده”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
  • “میده”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023
  • “میده”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
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