ميدان

See also: میدان‎

Arabic

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing. Compare Middle Persian mdyʾn' (*mayān, “middle; among, between”) (whence Persian ‎ (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))

square
field, sphere

Declension

Declension of noun مَيْدَان (maydān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	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
Plural	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)
→ 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)
- Tajik: майдон (maydon)
  - → Uzbek: maydon
- → Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
- → Hindustani:
  Urdu: میدان‎ (maidān)
  - → English: meidan / maidan
- → Kazakh: майдан (maydan)
- → Khorezmian Turkic: ميدان‎ (mäydan)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میدان‎ (meydân), میادین‎ (meyâdîn)
  - Turkish: meydan
  - → Albanian: mejdan
  - → Aromanian: migdane, migdãni, miydane
  - → Bulgarian: мегда̀н (megdàn)
  - → Crimean Tatar: meydan
  - → Czech: mejdan
  - → Greek: μεϊντάνι (meïntáni)
  - → Macedonian: мегдан (megdan)
  - → Romanian: maidan
  - → Serbo-Croatian: mègdān / мѐгда̄н, mèjdān / мѐјда̄н
  - → Tatar: мәйдан (mäydan)
- → Uyghur: مەيدان‎ (meydan)
→ Russian: майда́н (majdán), маида́н (maidán), мойда́н (mojdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
- → Buryat: майдаан (majdaan)
→ Ukrainian: майда́н (majdán) (via a Kipchak Turkic language)
- → Belarusian: майда́н (majdán)
- → Polish: majdan
→ 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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