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maidan

/maɪˈdɑːn/US/maɪˈdɑn/

maidan noun: a marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.

Noun (1)

maidan (plural maidans)

  1. (South-Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
    • Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 5
    • Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84

Noun (2)

Maidan (plural Maidans or maidans)

  1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  2. The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

Proper noun capitalized: Maidan

Maidan

  1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
    Synonyms:
    Maidan Shar, Maidan Shahr, Shar, Shahr
  2. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.
    Synonyms:
    Wardak, Wardag, Maidan Wardag, Maidan Wardak
  3. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.

maidan meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto

maidan in Hindi

marketplace or other open space
मैदान maidān

maidan in Urdu

marketplace or other open space
مَیْدَانْ maidān

maidan in Bengali

marketplace or other open space
ময়দান môẏdan

maidan in Pashto

marketplace or other open space
ميدان maydān
More languagesFewer languages
maidan in Arabic
مَيْدَان maydān
maidan in Persian
مِیدان meydân

Synonyms of maidan

  • Maidan Shar
  • Maidan Shahr
  • Shar
  • Shahr
  • Wardak
  • Wardag
  • Maidan Wardag
  • Maidan Wardak

Forms of maidan

pluralmaidans
alternative formmaidaun
alternative formmeidan
alternative formmeidaun
alternative formmidan
alternative formmydan
pluralMaidans
alternative formMaydan

Origin of maidan

From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.

From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.

Questions about maidan

What does maidan mean?
Maidan means a marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
What is maidan in Hindi?
Maidan in Hindi is मैदान (maidān). See Maidan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is maidan?
Maidan can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce maidan?
Maidan is pronounced /maɪˈdɑːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of maidan?
The plural of maidan is maidans.

Words near maidan in the dictionary

  1. maid-servants
  2. maida
  3. Maida Vale
  4. maidam
  5. maidams
  6. maidan
  7. maidans
  8. maidaun
  9. maidauns
  10. maidchild
  11. maidchildren

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