maidan
/maɪˈdɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
noun
Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
noun
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.
name
Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
name
Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.
name
Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.
Example Sentences
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: میدان, مَيْدَان, *madyānah, *mádʰyas
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /maɪˈdɑn/
- British English: /maɪˈdɑːn/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
anti-maidan