ميدان

See also: میدان

Arabic

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing. Compare Middle Persian mdyʾn' (*mayān, middle; among, between) (whence Persian میان (miyân)), Manichaean Parthian mdyʾn (*maẟyān, among, amid, between), Manichaean Sogdian [script needed] (myẟʾn /*mēẟan/, middle), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maiδiiāna, middle). Their first part is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maj.daːn/

Noun

مَيْدَان (maydān) m (plural مَيَادِين (mayādīn))

  1. square
  2. field, sphere

Declension

Descendants

  • → Aramaic:
  • → Azeri: meydan (or via Persian)
  • → Bashkir: майҙан (mayðan) (or via Persian)
  • Gurani: مەیڎان (mayḏan)
  • → Kiphcak:
    Armeno-Kipchak: մօյտան (moydan)
    Cuman: maydan
    Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (meydân)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: meydan
    Central Kurdish: مەیدان (maydān), مەیان (mayān)
  • → French: maïadan
  • → 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)
  • → Russian: майда́н (majdán), маида́н (maidán), мойда́н (mojdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
    • → Buryat: майдаан (majdaan)
  • → Ukrainian: майда́н (majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
  • → Spanish: almidana

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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 156
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