میدان
See also: ميدان
Persian
میدان
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing. Doublet of میان (miyân).
Pronunciation
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- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maj.ˈdɑːn]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɔ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mej.d̪ɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäj.d̪ɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | maydān |
| Dari reading? | maydān |
| Iranian reading? | meydân |
| Tajik reading? | maydon |
Noun
| Dari | میدان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | майдон |
میدان • (meydân) (plural میدانها (meydân-hâ))
- plaza, square (of a town etc.)
- میدان آزادی ― meydân-e âzâdi ― Azadi Square
- field, plain
- battlefield; (metonymically) battle
- (mathematics, physics) field
- میدان مغناطیسی ― meydân-e mağnâtisi ― magnetic field
- (Sufism, uncommon) stage of the mystical path
- Synonym: (more common) منزل (manzel)
Descendants
- Tajik: майдон (maydon)
- → Uzbek: maydon
- → Assamese: ময়দান (moyodan)
- → Azerbaijani: meydan
- → Braj: मैदान (maidān)
- → Middle Bengali: ময়দান (moẏodan)
- Bengali: ময়দান (moẏodan)
- → Dhivehi: މައިޒާން (maizān̊)
- → Dogri: madān
- Devanagari script: मदान
- Dogra script: 𑠢𑠛𑠬𑠝
- → Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
- → Gojri: میدان (maidān)
- → Gujarati: મેદાન (medān)
- → Hindustani: maidān
- → Kannada: ಮೈದಾನ (maidāna)
- → Kashmiri: mạ̄dān
- → Kazakh: майдан (maidan)
- → Konkani:
- Devanagari script: मैदान (maidān)
- Kannada script: ಮಯ್ದಾನ್
- Latin script: moidan
- → Kumyk: майдан (maydan)
- → Lezgi: майдан (majdan)
- → Maithili: medān
- Devanagari script: मॆदान
- Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒺𑒠𑒰𑒢
- → Malayalam: മൈദാനം (maidānaṁ)
- → Malvi: मेदान (medān)
- → Marathi: maidān
- Devanagari script: मैदान
- Modi script: 𑘦𑘺𑘟𑘰𑘡
- → Marwari:
- Devanagari script: मैदान (maidān)
- Mahajani script: 𑅬𑅑𑅥𑅧 (midn)
- → Nepali: मैदान (maidān)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میدان (meydân), میادین (meyâdîn)
- → Odia: ମଇଦାନ (môidanô)
- → Old Punjabi: ਮੈਦਾਨੁ (maidānu)
- → Sindhi: maidānu
- Arabic script: مَيدانُ
- Devanagari script: मैदानु
- Khudawadi script: 𑋗𑋦𑋏𑋠𑋑𑋣
- → Telugu: మైదానము (maidānamu)
- → Ukrainian: майдан (majdan) (via a Turkic language)
- → Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)
- → Uzbek: maydon
- → Khorezmian Turkic: ميدان (mäydan)
- → Zazaki: meydan
References
- Durkin, Philip (2004), “Loanword etymologies in the third edition of the OED: Some questions of classification”, in Christian J. Kay, Simon Horobin, Jeremy J. Smith, editors, New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 252), John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 83
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian میدان (maydān), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɛː.d̪ɑːn/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: مَے‧دان
Declension
| Declension of میدان | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدان (maidān) |
| oblique | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدانوں (maidānō̃) |
| vocative | مَیدان (maidān) | مَیدانو (maidānō) |
Further reading
- “میدان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “میدان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “میدان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “میدان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879), “میدان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834), “میدان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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